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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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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Humans
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Curiosity

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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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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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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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