Peter S. Beagle Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Matter

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

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  Girl, Moving, White

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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