Lloyd Alexander Quotes - Page 5

• In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

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  Hombres, Raza, Envidia

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.64, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Pride, May, Birth

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.108, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Después de ahorrar algo de dinero, dejé de trabajar y me fui a una universidad local.

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  College, Quitting, I Quit

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• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

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  Crowns, Discomfort, Ifs

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

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  Padres, Se busca

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• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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  Teacher, Mark, Dearest Friend

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain”, p.97, Macmillan

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• 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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  Cat, Doors, Practice

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• 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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  Beautiful, Girl, Paris

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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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  Book, May, Reader

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• My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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  Genuine, Being True, Concern

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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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  Grief, Ends, Knowledge Wisdom

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I loved all the world's mythologies.

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  World, Mythology

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “Taran Wanderer”, p.221, Macmillan

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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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  Guerra, Ejército, Mundo

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• El Prydain Companion es más que una referencia rápida o un práctico glosario, aunque también es todo eso. Es instructivo, sin duda. Pero, como cualquier buen compañero, es un placer estar con él durante mucho tiempo.

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  Long, Pleasure, Periods

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• Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

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  Growing Up, Cost, Fantasy

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.132, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Writing, Literature, Forget

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• There's this huge number of desperate people.

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  Numbers, People, Desperate

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• Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

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  Humanity, Stories, Autobiography

  "The Grammar of Story". Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland, 1981.

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• 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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  Men, Pigs, Crowns

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.77, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• 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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  Evil, Justice, Noble

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.149, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Destiny, Men, Woven

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.112, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

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  Dream, Queens, Kings

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The High King”, p.248, Macmillan

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• 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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  Pain, Grief, Believe

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.83, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

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  Hero, Sacrifice, Enchantment

  Lloyd Alexander (2015). “The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.173, Macmillan

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• A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

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  Liars, Men, Fearless

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