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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Rise
Alone
Live
Life
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
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You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime. -Kahlan Amnell
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Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
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Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.
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If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
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Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
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People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.
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Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
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It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard
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Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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