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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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