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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.

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
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Men
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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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What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
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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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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.
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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
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I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.
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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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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
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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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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
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