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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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David Eddings
Age: 77 †
Born: 1931
Born: July 7
Died: 2009
Died: June 2
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Spokane
Washington
David Carroll Eddings
Cynic
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Shook
Silk
Majesty
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All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
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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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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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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's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.
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...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
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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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It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
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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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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk
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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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...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression. That's all right, Beldin, Silk forgave him grandly. These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.
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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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The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.
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