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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.
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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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.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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 truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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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 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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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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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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