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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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