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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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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 point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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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 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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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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