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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Lloyd Alexander
The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Lloyd Alexander
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
Lloyd Alexander
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd Alexander
You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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.
Lloyd Alexander
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
Lloyd Alexander
...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
Lloyd Alexander
Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
Lloyd Alexander
If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd Alexander
