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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.

Peter S. Beagle

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Peter S. Beagle
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
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Preparing
Meals
Justify
Illusion
Undeceived
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Expense
Money
Meal
Live
Wasted
Enough
Expenses

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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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I love whom I love, Prince Lir repeated firmly. You have no power over anything that matters.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 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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Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
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Sing to me, she said. That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.
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Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
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It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
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