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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Peter Soyer Beagle
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Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
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What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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If she had touched me, he said very softly, I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
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No, he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.
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Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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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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What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. Always, always, it sighed, faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.
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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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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
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I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that? (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
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Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
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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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If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
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