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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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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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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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