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No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Kill
Persons
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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives. And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives? That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.
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There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
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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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Authority doesn't come from a rank., Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. Where does it come from? From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
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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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Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, Sazed said quietly.
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I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
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Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.
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I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.
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I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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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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You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.
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Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
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You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?
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Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
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