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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

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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
Fantasy
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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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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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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 I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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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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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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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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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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