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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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