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He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Grief
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Smiled
Men
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