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Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

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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
Prove
Laughing
Worth
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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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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 felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
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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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Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
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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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Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
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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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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
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We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward none other is needed nor better.
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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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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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Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
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Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.
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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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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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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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