Top 100 Lloyd Alexander Quotes
#1. Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension ... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.
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#9. True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.
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#10. What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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#11. When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated
with the social consequences we know all too well.
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#12. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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#13. Is a man truly what he see himself to be?'
'Only if what he sees is true.
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#14. At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize.
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#15. The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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#16. 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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#17. For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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#18. One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.
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#19. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
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#20. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
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#22. From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.
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#23. It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
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#24. 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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#25. If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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#26. There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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#27. My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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#28. 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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#29. Some days are like that ... and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.
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#30. 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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#31. I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.
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#32. I think we should always remember that reading
the experience of a book
is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.
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#33. Often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite what you'd expect.
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#34. 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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#35. A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.
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#36. Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.
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#39. 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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#40. My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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#41. Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties
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#42. As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded.
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#43. The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
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#44. Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.
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#45. After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
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#46. For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.
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#47. 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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#48. Namaste, Prince of Naga-loka. I'm grateful. You're a fine fellow." He stuck out his tongue and grinned wickedly. "For a royal wriggler."
"Namaste, O flea-ridden tree-climber," Shesha replied, with a fond glint in his eyes. "May your life be as long as you insolence is great.
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#50. A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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#51. I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret
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#52. Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be
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#53. My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.
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#54. 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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#56. The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
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#57. Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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#58. 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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#60. Neither refuse to give help when it is needed, ... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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#61. I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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#62. A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
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#63. After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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#64. You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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#66. I like looking back at art-work or my writing and seeing it in a different perspective...It shows how much one has grown as a creator. Perfection may not exist in reality but I always strive to capture the beauty in whatever I happen to be doing.
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#67. How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.
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#68. When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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#72. 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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#73. A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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#74. Our pride is not in fighting but in farming; In the work of our, hands not our blades. Never have we sought war. We come to the Banner of the white pig because it is the banner of our friend, Terran Wanderer.
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#76. Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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#77. I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
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#78. And so shall honor Morgant," Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarcau for what he became.
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#79. Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
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#80. Well," said Eilonwy, "you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot.
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#81. Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
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#82. Keep reading
It's one of the
most adventures
that anyone
can have
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#83. 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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#84. He was a great poet" They lamented.
No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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#85. Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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#86. Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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#92. Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
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#93. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.
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#94. She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
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#95. 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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#97. There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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#98. Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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#99. At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief ... but hope
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#100. Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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