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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
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Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.
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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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Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.
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Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him? She's loony, Spook said.
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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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In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.
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If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.
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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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I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
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Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
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Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
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It's not imitating anything it has become a better version of itself.
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I still doubt it will work. You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day, Raoden said with a smile.
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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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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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I don't have much time for stories, Vin said. Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days. A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.
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