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It's not imitating anything it has become a better version of itself.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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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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Elend started. Vin! Then, he smiled. What took you so long? I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god, she said. Now hustle.
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Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?
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War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.
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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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You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
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The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.
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...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
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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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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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Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
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How totally unexpected, he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.
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I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?
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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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For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
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What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?
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A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
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