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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.
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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As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
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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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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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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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...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
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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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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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They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
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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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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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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
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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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Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
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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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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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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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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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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
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