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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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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.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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