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If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
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Anything
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I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.
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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
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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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It is you! the man exclaimed. We thought you weren't coming for another week! Ashe, Sarene mumbled, who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
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So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
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Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.
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In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
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It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.
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I don't have much time for stories, Vin said. Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days. A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.
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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.
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How totally unexpected, he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.
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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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