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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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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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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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