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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?

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
Death
Malice
Everything
Pointless
Kind
Survived
Good
Injustice
Men
Hatred
Life
Creatures
Soulless
World
Glory
Stripped
Terrible
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