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Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

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
Backwards
Fool
Walks
Future

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You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime. -Kahlan Amnell
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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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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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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They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.
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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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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
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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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...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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...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.
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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 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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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are that was why you liked them in the first place.
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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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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less
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It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.
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People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
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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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