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It was an old trick, one he remembered from every discussion and bull session he had ever taken part in: if you don’t know, make it up. Nobody ever admitted he didn’t know a quotation, or a book, or an essay on something. The rule also had a corollary: if you’re not sure, it’s Marlowe.

— Peter S. Beagle A Fine and Private Place (1960)

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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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The one delusion you never had in your life was the one about the permanence of happiness.

A Fine and Private Place (1960)

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

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I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

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Beautiful is a word for young people. Beauty is a phase you grow through, like acne.

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