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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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
Mythologies
Mythology
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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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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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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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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 I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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