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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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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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Those who have come here to hate should leave now for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
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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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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
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