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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
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Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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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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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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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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