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

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
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Come
Life
Surprising
Lessons
Knowledge

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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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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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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
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Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
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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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Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
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Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
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Think of the solution, not the problem
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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.
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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.
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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
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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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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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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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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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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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