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Find what you want. I will find you.
Lloyd Alexander
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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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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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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