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What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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Peter Soyer Beagle
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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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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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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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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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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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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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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 is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.
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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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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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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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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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Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
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The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. Your face is wet, he said worriedly. I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.
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No, he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.
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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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The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
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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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There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
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