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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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