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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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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
Lloyd Alexander
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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd Alexander
Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Lloyd Alexander
If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
Lloyd Alexander
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
