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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.

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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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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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