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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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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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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 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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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