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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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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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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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What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. Always, always, it sighed, faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.
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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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The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
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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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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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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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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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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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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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..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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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
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