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There's this huge number of desperate people.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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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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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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.
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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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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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