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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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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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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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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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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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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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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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