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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
May
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Seek

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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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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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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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