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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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