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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

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
Contained
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Evil

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After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
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