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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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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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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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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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