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If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
Brandon Sanderson
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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.
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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours. Ranette: Your mansion isn't safe? Wax: My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study Ranette: Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.
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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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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?
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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
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Well, then, he said. Let's do it. What? Vin asked. Save the world. Elend said. Stop the ash.
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Act with honor, and Honor will aid you
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
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At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
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So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
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Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive
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When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.
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You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
Brandon Sanderson
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
Brandon Sanderson
What? Is that boy crazy? Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think, Sazed said with a smile. However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven't you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room? I thought he was just creepy.
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