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Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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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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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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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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that? (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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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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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
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Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
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If she had touched me, he said very softly, I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
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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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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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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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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
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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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..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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