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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
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I had Eondel teach me, Raoden said. Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.
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Authority doesn't come from a rank., Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. Where does it come from? From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.
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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
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It's not imitating anything it has become a better version of itself.
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The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
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...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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Faith isn't about logic, son, Haddek said. Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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Good men don't become legends, he said quietly. Good men don't need to become legends. She opened her eyes, looking up at him. They just do what's right anyway.
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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
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If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.
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Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
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Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
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You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?
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Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
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You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
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