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Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Important
Things
Men
Life
Heaped
Became
Small
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For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
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