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I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
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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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I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
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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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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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You were the one who taught me, he said. I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like 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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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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..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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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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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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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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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