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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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