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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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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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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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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