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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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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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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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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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