Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be
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I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
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Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.
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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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No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!
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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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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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Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?
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You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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