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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

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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
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May
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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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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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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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