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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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