Peter S. Beagle Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Dream, Lasts, Unicorn

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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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  Dream, Sleep, Daylight

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

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• But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

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  Dream, Real, Moving

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• Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

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  Running, Attention, Serious

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

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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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  Mean, Fate, Sake

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

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• He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

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  Empty, Said, Knows

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

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• Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

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  Farewell, Doors, World

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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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  Perseverance, Art, Nine

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

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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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  Home, Eye, Ears

  "The Unicorn Sonata". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1996.

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• I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Matter

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

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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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  Long, Wish, Stories

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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• But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Parent

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• Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

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  Cat, Sea, Shoes

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

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• Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

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  Memories, Museums, California

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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?'

  Peter S. Beagle

  Writing, Thinking, Elbows

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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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  Envy, Secret, Moonlight

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

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  Kings, Dark, Castles

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

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• I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

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  Smell, World, Taste

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

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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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  Strong, May, Way

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

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• He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.

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  Father, Hands, Water

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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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  Beautiful, Forever, World

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

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

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  Rainbow, Horny, Riding

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

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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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  Heart, Curse, Effects

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

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• What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

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  Use, Wizardry, Unicorn

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

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• I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

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  Regret, Tears, Want

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

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