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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Psychological
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