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A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
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Darkness
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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
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Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, Sazed said quietly.
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In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives. And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives? That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.
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The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
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Raoden looked up at his friend. We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.
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...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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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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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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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
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I've seen Steelheart bleed
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It's not imitating anything it has become a better version of itself.
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This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
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You're a mean old man, Your Grace. And that is the way it should be. Roial informed. Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
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My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
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I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
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Elend started. Vin! Then, he smiled. What took you so long? I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god, she said. Now hustle.
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