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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

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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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Nourish
Imagination
Else

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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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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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