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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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Dreariness
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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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 concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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