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I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

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
Storyteller
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Interested
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Stories
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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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Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.
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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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Misty Sendaria, Silk said ironically. Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.
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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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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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Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk. It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?
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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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It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
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It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath
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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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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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I'm truly amazed at you, Garion, Polgara said. I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language. Thank you, he said, I think.
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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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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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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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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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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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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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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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