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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
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Peter Soyer Beagle
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Undeceived
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Meal
Live
Wasted
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