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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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