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This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Remember
Sometimes
Always
World
Tempest
Rises
Sun

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