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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
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Fantasy
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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