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Peter S. Beagle

(1939) Writer United States

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Peter S. Beagle is a writer from the United States, best known for The Last Unicorn.

Quick Facts About Peter S. Beagle

Born: April 20, 1939
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Last Unicorn

About Peter S. Beagle

Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn (1968) which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last 25 years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Mythopoeic Awards Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award Nebula Award for Best Novelette Hugo Award for Best Novelette Guggenheim Fellowship Inkpot Award World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

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WSFA Small Press Award World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Locus Award for Best Novelette Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Quotes by Peter S. Beagle · Page 5

He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to…

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Communion

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“Wonder and love and great sorrow shook Schmendrick the Magician then, and came together inside him and filled him, filled him until…

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Love

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“Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear…

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Alone

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“I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.”

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“He felt as if he had told a joke and they had missed the punchline and were leaning to him, wating for…

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The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from…

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Bagpipes

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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…

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Certain

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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…

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Country

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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…

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Authors

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“There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it…

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Bible

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

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Doe

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“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a…

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Freedom

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“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence…

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Identity

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“Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world." "She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be…

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Last Unicorn

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“This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me.”

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Death

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“But the Lady Amalthea and Prince Lir walked and spoke and sang together as blithely as though King Haggard's castle had become…

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Castle

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“I love whom I love.”

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Love

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“Haven’t you ever been in a fairy tale before?”

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Fairy tale

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

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Burdens

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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…

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Cat

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There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

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Ends

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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…

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Color

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“I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long…

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Fantasy-fiction

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“I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.”

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Darkness

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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…

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Love

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Peter S. Beagle by topic

Unicorn (29) Love (23) Time (22) Said (18) Hero (13) Dreams (12) Men (11) Life (10) Ur Eyes (9) World (9) People (9) Magician (9) Death (9) Poetry (8) Forever (8)