Peter S. Beagle Quotes - Page 3

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• ...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far.

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  Thinking, Want, Way

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• I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

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  Cat, Answers, Want

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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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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  Beautiful, Thinking, Ugly

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?

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  Years, Twenties, Dare

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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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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  Night, Hands, Long

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.23, Tachyon Publications

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• Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.

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  Horse, Latin, Animal

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”, Del Rey

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• there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

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  Happy Endings, Ends

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• What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

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  Gone, Stolen, Grows

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.

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  Daughter, Running, Kings

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• Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

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  Song, Farewell, Butterfly

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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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  Patience, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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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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  Dream, History, Honor

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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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  Hero, Men, Needs

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

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  Son, Profound, Ineptitude

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her"...[later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her." "If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will... The price is more than a cat can pay.

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  Dog, Cat, Offering

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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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  Grief, Men, Speech

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

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  Kings, Grief, Voice

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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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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  Eye, Errors, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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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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  Cat, Fur, Firsts

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

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  Beautiful, Silly, Moving

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.

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  Fall, Hero, Voice

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• Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

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  Immortal, Generous

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

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  Eye, Magic In The World, Green

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

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  Faces, Forget, Stranger

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• Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.

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  Choices, Needs, Gone

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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