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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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.
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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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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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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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