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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?'
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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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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Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
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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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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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.
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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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Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
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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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