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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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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
True
Might
Believe
People
Afraid
Stupid
Lying

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Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
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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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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.
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Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
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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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...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.
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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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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
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