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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

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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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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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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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