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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
Lloyd Alexander
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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
Lloyd Alexander
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
Lloyd Alexander
Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
Lloyd Alexander
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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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
Lloyd Alexander
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander