Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!
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'Count yourself lucky,' the potter went on, 'that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.'
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'Didn’t you ever see a cat before?''Of course I did,' said the boy. 'Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.'
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?
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It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.
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'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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'Oh yes,' said the Emperor. 'That’s what you have to do when you approach the Celestial Presence-that’s me.''Well, I’m afraid that no cat in the world ever bowed to an emperor,' said Jason. 'They just won’t do it, Ichigo, and you’re wasting your time if you try to force them. A cat does what he wants, when he wants, emperor or not.'
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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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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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The task counts more than the one who does it.
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'A pig is a pig,' said the stranger, 'and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.'
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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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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.
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'This is a place of peace,' Medwyn said, 'and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.'
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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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Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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'I have marched in many a battle host,' Adaon answered quietly, 'but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.'
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Fantasy, by its power to move us so deeply, to dramatize, even melo-dramatize, morality, can be one of the most effective means of establishing a capacity for adult values.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.