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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

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
Unicorn
Hardly
Seem
Dream
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You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.
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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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She said, I will go no farther. There is no choice. We can only go on. The magician said again. We can only go on.
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Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
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