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

Terry Goodkind

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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
Live
Life
Individuality
Rise
Alone

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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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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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When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor
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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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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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Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
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Think of the solution, not the problem
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow we can't relive yesterday.
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Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
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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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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
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But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.
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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
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Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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