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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

Lloyd Alexander

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Humanity
Story
Stories
Autobiography
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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