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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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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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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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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 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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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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