Lloyd Alexander Quotes

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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.

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  Strength, Education, Wisdom

  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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.

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• Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

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  Men, Skills, Water

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.131, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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.

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  Kings, Hero, Men

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

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  Reading, Adventure, Marvelous

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 1999.

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• Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

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  Seize The Day

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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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  Children

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.11, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

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  Evil, Mask

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Count the deed, not the thought.

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  Deeds

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.107, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Writing, Ignorance, People

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• If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

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  Patterns, Life Is, Ifs

  Lloyd Alexander (1967). “Taran Wanderer”, Yearling Books

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• Behind one truth there is always yet another.

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  Behinds

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• Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

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  Believe, Imagination, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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  Inspirational, Time, Thinking

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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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  Names, Evil, Looks

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.119, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Art, Reading, Thinking

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• It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

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  Men, Bears, Enough

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

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  Looks, Stills

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• True allegiance is only given willingly.

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  Given, Allegiance

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “Taran Wanderer”, p.47, Macmillan

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• If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

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  Giving, Want, Should

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.528, Macmillan

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• Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

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  Giving, Helping, Accepting

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Cat, Animal, Numbers

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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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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  Revenge, Men, Wish

  Lloyd Alexander (2007). “The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio”, p.132, Macmillan

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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.

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  Life Changing, Book, Giving

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three, 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.194, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

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  Evil, Wish

  "The Chronicles of Prydain, Book V: The High King". Book by Lloyd Alexander, 1968.

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