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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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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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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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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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Richard thought a moment. I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand. Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.
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Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
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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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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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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
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Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.
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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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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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Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
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No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
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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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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
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Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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