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When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

David Eddings

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David Eddings
Age: 77 †
Born: 1931
Born: July 7
Died: 2009
Died: June 2
Novelist
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Spokane
Washington
David Carroll Eddings
Wisdom
Bliss
Folly
Ignorance

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It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath
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Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.
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Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,” he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?” “It’s said to have fallen out of the sky.” “They always do,” Beldin said. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
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I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
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Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.
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Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
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You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
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Consistency is the defense of a small mind
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The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.
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Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
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The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.
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The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar
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Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.
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Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.
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Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
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If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
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It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
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I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry. That might explain a lot, Beldin noted blandly. We should have fed you more often when you were younger.
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