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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

David Eddings

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David Eddings
Age: 77 †
Born: 1931
Born: July 7
Died: 2009
Died: June 2
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Spokane
Washington
David Carroll Eddings
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Afternoon
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Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.
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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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Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
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When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
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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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This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
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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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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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The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.
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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.
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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
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Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.
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Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond
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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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It's only a story, isn't it?... Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?
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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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