Peter S. Beagle Quotes

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
• There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
• What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?
• Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.
• But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
• Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
• I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
• You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
• There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was…
• Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you…
• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them…
• I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very…
• Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
• Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
• It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.
• 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…
• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he…
• Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
• The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

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