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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

Lloyd Alexander

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Nourish
Imagination
Else
Everything

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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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