Peter S. Beagle Short Quotes

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He was not lying, merely organizing events more sensibly.

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Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

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

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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

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

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Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know.

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

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There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.

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

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

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The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough — what greater sin is there than that?

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I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

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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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No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

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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.

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Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.

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

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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.

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When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

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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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Your true task has just begun, and you may not know in your life if you have succeeded in it, but only if you fail.

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If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

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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.

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

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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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