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Lloyd Alexander

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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.


— Lloyd Alexander


#girls #men #men-and-women #sense #men

Who but lovers dream alike?


— Lloyd Alexander


#love #lovers #dreams

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.


— Lloyd Alexander


#courage

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.


— Lloyd Alexander


#men

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.


— Lloyd Alexander


#evil #death

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.


— Lloyd Alexander


#allows #central #device #express #feelings

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.


— Lloyd Alexander


#college #i #i quit #local #money

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.


— Lloyd Alexander


#beautiful #discharged #eventually #girl #i

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.


— Lloyd Alexander


#finding #itself #learn #learning #looking

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.


— Lloyd Alexander


#family #finally #got #i #jobs






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Did you know about Lloyd Alexander?

That was "the story of a young person going out into the world for the first time and finding the world a very difficult place indeed. He once described it as being educational for him and as "rather like being a visiting uncle who has a marvelous time with his nephews and nieces then goes off leaving the parents to cope with attacks of whooping cough mending socks and blackmailing the kids to straighten up the mess in their rooms. I loved all the world's mythologies; King Arthur was one of my heroes;.

His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion The High King was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.

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