Terry Brooks Quotes
born 1944 United States
Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born 8 January 1944) is an American author most famous for his Shannara epic fantasy book series.
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The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.
What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!
There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
“If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!”
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.
We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.