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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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