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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Chance
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Meant
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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