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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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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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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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