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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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