Peter S. Beagle - People Quotes

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I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.

Peter S. Beagle

My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too.

Peter S. Beagle

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Peter S. Beagle

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.

Peter S. Beagle

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

Peter S. Beagle

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?

Peter S. Beagle

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

Peter S. Beagle