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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
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Autobiography
Finally
Humanity
Story
Stories

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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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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.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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