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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?

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Novelist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
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Smell
Except
Taste
Ever
Live
Everything
Smells
World
Tastes

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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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Lir said, It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last. But Schmendrick answered, This is not the end, either for you or for her.
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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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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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