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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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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
Lloyd Alexander
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
Lloyd Alexander
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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Lloyd Alexander
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.
Lloyd Alexander
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander