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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Don't frown so, you'll look old before your time.
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In some cases 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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Count the deed, not the thought.
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King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
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When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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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
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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Every living thing deserves our respect ... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
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Forgive me ... I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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I'm trying to make myself invisible.""That's an odd thing to attempt. — Lloyd Alexander
A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true. — Lloyd Alexander
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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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Inconvient things are always remembered
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Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties
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It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
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All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.
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Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.
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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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One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief ... but hope
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She was the most confusing person he had ever met
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
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For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.
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A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
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The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
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Stale water is a poor drink,' said Annlaw. 'Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
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If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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It would be a shame if you were killed. I should be very sorry. I know I wouldn't like it to happen to me.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize.
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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True allegiance is only given willingly.
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She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
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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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King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.
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Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Behind one truth there is always yet another.
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Good cannot come from evil.
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