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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.
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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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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