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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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
Happiness
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Inspirational
Something
Complete
Loss

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Consistency is the defense of a small mind
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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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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 all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
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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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It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
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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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Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
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Behold the Drojim Palace, King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, the hereditary home of the House of Urga. A most unusual structure, You Majesty, Sadi murmured. That's a diplomatic way to put it. Urgit looked critically at his palace. It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectl
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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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Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening. He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
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...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact.
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I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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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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Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.
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