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

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Source : YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.

Lloyd Alexander

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.”
“Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.”
“At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.”
“We love playing music but were too weird to play music.”
“it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.”

Source : Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.45, Penguin UK
“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
“Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you canâ€¦.Â The art world is high school with money.”
“What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.”

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