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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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