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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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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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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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