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The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
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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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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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Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?)
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...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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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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Authority doesn't come from a rank., Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. Where does it come from? From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.
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It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.
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You could be writing the book that changes your life.
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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
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You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.
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Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
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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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You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then? I believe in them all. Vin frowned. None of them contradict each other? Sazed smiled. Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.
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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Every man is a hero of his own story.
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Remember, the past need not become our future as well.
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