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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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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Unfinished
Damned
Looked
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The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.
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Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.
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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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I killed you once, the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. You tried, Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
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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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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 has to be a balance, Vin, Elend said. Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. He sighed. But for now, he said, nodding to the side, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
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If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!
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Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
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Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
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I've seen Steelheart bleed
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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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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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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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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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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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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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