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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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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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