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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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