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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.
Peter S. Beagle
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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
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What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
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What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. Always, always, it sighed, faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.
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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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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
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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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Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
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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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...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
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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 Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
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..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
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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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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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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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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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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
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What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
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