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Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

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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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Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them. You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. Won't that make them angry? Are you afraid of a chicken?
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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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You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
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All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.
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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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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 the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
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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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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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You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.
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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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I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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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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It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath
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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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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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I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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