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Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

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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
Served
Safe
Books
Knowledge
Keep
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Hard
Endured

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Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.
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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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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
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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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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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Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
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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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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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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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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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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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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
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Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
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Only those you trust can betray you ~ Nathan
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Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
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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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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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