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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
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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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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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But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake it is never finished. -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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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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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
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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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