Lloyd Alexander

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it

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Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts

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-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."-"It was stupid

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A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won

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Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!