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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.

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
Forbid
Truly
Fear
Human
Humans
Things
Love

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A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
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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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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.
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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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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 the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
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You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.
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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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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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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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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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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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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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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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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
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