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Peter S Beagle Quotes

“We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them-- and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.”

Justice Robin Hood Outlaws Peter S Beagle Last Unicorn

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“As for righting wrongs and fighting for civil liberties, that sort of thing, it wouldn't be so bad ... but then we have to sing those songs about wearing Lincoln green and aiding the oppressed. We don't, Cully, we turn them in for the reward, and those songs are just embarrassing, that's all, and there's the truth of it.”

Robin Hood Outlaws Peter S Beagle Last Unicorn Cully Life Of Lies

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.”

Failure Outlaws Peter S Beagle Last Unicorn

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“But the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or fifteen o'clock. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you can understand that -- then any time at all will be the right time for you.”

Wisdom Love Life Unicorn Lessons In Life Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn Confidence Makes You Beautiful

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?”

Anger Management Insults Pretentiousness Peter S Beagle Last Unicorn Kneecaps Pretentious Kneecaps Schmendrick

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“At last he said to me, '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.”

Humor Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Nothing's worth any effort in the end," he said to Laura, "because everyone is going to die and there is nothing in the world that will stop them from dying. Nothing lasts. A few things last longer than most people live, but they go too. Hope goes, and desire and wonder and fear and eagerness. Love lasts a few minutes longer, that's all. A minute or a month or an hour. The paper match burns down until it singes your fingers and goes out, and there you are in the dark again, rubbing your two little sticks together. But this is the last time, the last match. There won't be any more light. No more. And no more noise of things moving or of animals lying down. Only our separate, untouching selves, and soon not even that.”

Love Ghosts Peter S Beagle

Book:A Fine and Private Place

Source: A Fine and Private Place