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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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