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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.
Lloyd Alexander
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
Lloyd Alexander
You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
Lloyd Alexander
-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Lloyd Alexander
I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
Lloyd Alexander
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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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
Lloyd Alexander
What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
Lloyd Alexander
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
Lloyd Alexander
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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