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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Absence
Joy
Discomfort

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You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze
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...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
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A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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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.
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The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.
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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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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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Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
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Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
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It's like a banana farm for guns!
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It's not imitating anything it has become a better version of itself.
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It's a mystery, Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious. Elend paused. Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That doesn't make any sense. We Mistborn need not make sense, Vin said. It's beneath us. Come on-the sun's already down. We need to get moving.
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This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.
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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
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Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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