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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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