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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
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Fantasy

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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 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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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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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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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