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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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