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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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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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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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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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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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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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