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The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.


Terry Goodkind

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TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
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