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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

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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
Surprising
Lessons
Knowledge
Times
Comes
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Life

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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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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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Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.
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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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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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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
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Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.
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We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
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Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
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Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
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Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.
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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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Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.
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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroy
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