Terry Goodkind Quotes

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• The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
• The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.
• Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
• You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.
• It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
• Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.
• 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…
• When you're the leader, everything is your fault.
• Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.
• Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
• There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
• I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.
• One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.
• 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…
• After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my…
• I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
• Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
• 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…
• No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
• Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

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