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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.

Lloyd Alexander

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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
People
Adults
Attitude
Feelings
Young
Paradoxically
Able
Attitudes
Ever
Deepest
Done
Express
Writing
Fantasy

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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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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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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.
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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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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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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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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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