Peter S. Beagle Quotes

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• Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Laughing, Luck, Take Me

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

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• Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Inspirational, Hero, Writing

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

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• The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fall, Eye, Night

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

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• You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Real, People, Comfort

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• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Lying, Hero

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

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• Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

  Peter S. Beagle

  Joy, Findings, Bewilderment

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

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• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Unicorn, Broken Dreams

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

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• Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Time, Forever

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

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• A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Spring, Numbers, Mind

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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.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Men, Color

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

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• 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. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Pay, Calm

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

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• Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

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

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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.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Long, Forever

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

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• I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dies

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.271, Tachyon Publications

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• There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Unicorn, Happy Endings, Ends

  "The Last Unicorn". www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... 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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  Song, Men, Two

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• Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Names, Pieces

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

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• It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Space, Worry, Way

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

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• There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

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  Honesty, People, Devil

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.144, Tachyon Publications

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• What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Men, Doe

  "Fictional character: Unicorn / Lady Amalthea". "The Last Unicorn", 1982.

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• I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

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  Kings, Play, Soldier

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

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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.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fear, Mines, Has Beens

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

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• You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Heart, Eye

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

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• I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

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  Real, Talking, Names

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

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• The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rocks, Secret, Unicorn

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

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