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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
Individuality
Rise
Alone
Live
Life

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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
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Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you. Richard stared back at him a long moment. I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.
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Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
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We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward none other is needed nor better.
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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Grrratch luuug Raaaach aaarg
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Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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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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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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I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.
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Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.
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That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
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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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Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.
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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less
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