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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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Everything
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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.
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