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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Autobiography
Finally
Humanity
Story
Stories

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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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.
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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