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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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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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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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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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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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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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