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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.
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 know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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