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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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.
Lloyd Alexander
You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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