Lloyd Alexander Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.
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“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 1999.
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“Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun”
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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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“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three, 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.194, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
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“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.”
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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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“For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.”
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“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”
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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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“We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”
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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.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2007). “The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio”, p.132, Macmillan
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“If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.”
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“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
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“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.”
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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.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.11, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.”
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“Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.”
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“Behind one truth there is always yet another.”
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“He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.”
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“When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.”
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“If you want truth you should begin by giving it.”
-- Lloyd AlexanderSource : Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.528, Macmillan
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“If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.”
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“Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.”
-- Lloyd Alexander
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