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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Screenwriter
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
Attention
Running
Anything
Never
Attracts
Immortal
Serious

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...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. I know you, he said.
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Sing to me, she said. That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.
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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
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There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
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I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
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But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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