Peter S. Beagle Quotes - Page 3

• ...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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• 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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• 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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• Hay que ser muy profundo para estar muerto, pensó, y yo no lo estoy. Empezó a tener algún concepto del para siempre, y su mente se estremeció como lo había hecho su cuerpo cuando se despertaba en las noches frías y metía las manos entre los muslos para calentarse. Será una noche larga, pensó.

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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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• - and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

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  Love And Fear, Humans

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

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• The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

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  Uncles, Angel, Aunt

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• The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.

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  Eye, Moon, White

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

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

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  Materia

  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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