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Lloyd Chudley Alexander – amerykański pisarz fantasy, autor ponad 40 powieści, skierowanych głównie do dzieci i młodzieży, z których najbardziej znany jest cykl The Chronicles of Prydain. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Styczeń 1924 – 17. Maj 2007
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Lloyd Alexander: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

Lloyd Alexander książka The Book of Three

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 1
Kontekst: "Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

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

A Visit with Lloyd Alexander https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GilIovrb4uE&feature=youtu.be&t=5m43s (1994)

“We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 14

“Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.”

"The Grammar of Story", in Celebrating Children's Books (1981), p. 13

“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.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 8

“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.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 16

“We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 2

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

Lloyd Alexander książka The Black Cauldron

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book III: The Castle of Llyr (1966), Chapter 1
Źródło: The Black Cauldron

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

Interview with Scholastic students http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/lloyd-alexander-interview-transcript (1999)

“I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Kontekst: “Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king — every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once,” he added, “you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
“Once, I hoped for a glorious destiny,” Taran went on, smiling at his own memory. “That dream has vanished with my childhood; and though a pleasant dream it was fit only for a child. I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.”

“Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Kontekst: “I saw myself,” Taran answered. “In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other.
“But this, too, I saw,” he went on. “Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”

“Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Kontekst: “When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.”
“If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,” Annlaw agreed. “Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.”

“He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper.”

Lloyd Alexander książka The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain

The Foundling, pp. 25–27
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain (1973)
Kontekst: ... the book told him of other ways of the world; of cruelty, suffering, and death. He read of greed, hatred, and war; of men striving against one another with fire and sword; of the blossoming earth trampled underfoot, of harvests lost and lives cut short...
But now his heart lifted. These pages told not only of death, but of birth as well; how the earth turns in its own time and in its own way gives back what is given to it; how things lost may be found again; and how one day ends for another to begin. He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible.

“You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Kontekst: “Dyrnwyn is yours,” Gwydion said, “as it was meant to be.”
“Yet Arawn is slain,” Taran replied. “Evil is conquered and the blade’s work done.”
“Evil conquered?” said Gwydion. “You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men’s hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

“I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 9
Kontekst: “You are the oaken staff I lean on,” Taran said. “More than that.” He laughed. “You are the whole sturdy tree, and a true warrior.”
Coll, instead of beaming, looked wryly at him. “Do you mean to honor me?” he asked. “Then say, rather, I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it.”

“Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 1

“The Book of Three can say no more than ‘if’ until at the end, of all things that might have been, one alone becomes what really is.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Kontekst: “How then?” Taran asked. “Could The Book of Three deceive you?”
“No, it could not.” Dallben said. “The book is thus called because it tells all three parts of our lives: the past, the present, and the future. But it could as well be called a book of ‘if.’ If you had failed at your tasks; if you had followed an evil path; if you had been slain; if you had not chosen as you did — a thousand ‘ifs,’ my boy, and many times a thousand. The Book of Three can say no more than ‘if’ until at the end, of all things that might have been, one alone becomes what really is. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”

“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe we can do.”

Lloyd Alexander książka The Book of Three

Author's Note
Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964)
Kontekst: 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.

“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed," Medwyn continued, "nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”

Lloyd Alexander książka The Book of Three

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 13

“The journey is the treasure.”

Źródło: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

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

Lloyd Alexander książka The Black Cauldron

Źródło: The Black Cauldron

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”

Lloyd Alexander książka The High King

Źródło: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 11 (p. 142)