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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.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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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..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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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 tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.
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- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
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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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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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