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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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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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