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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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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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 writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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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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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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