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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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