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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
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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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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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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 always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
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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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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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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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.
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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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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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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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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. I know you, he said.
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But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake it is never finished. -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn
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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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