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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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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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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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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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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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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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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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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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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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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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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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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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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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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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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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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.
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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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