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Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
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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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No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
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Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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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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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
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People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
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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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Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
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There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.
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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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I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.
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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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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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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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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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