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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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"Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
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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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It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.
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Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you, Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.
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"I don't even know who I am."
"In a way," answered Gwydion, "that is something we must all discover for ourselves."
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life. In whatever guise—our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity; or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death—the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love and mercy, is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.
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"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard. "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said. "We aren't really expected to."
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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"A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy."
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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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I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
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If a storyteller worried about the facts,... how could he ever get at the truth?
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Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.
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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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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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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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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe 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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Lloyd Alexander
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Born:
January 30, 1924
Died:
May 17, 2007
(aged 83)
Bio:
Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults.
Known for:
The Book of Three (1964)
The Black Cauldron (1965)
The High King (1968)
Taran Wanderer (1967)
The Castle of Llyr (1966)
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