Brandon Sanderson Quotes

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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

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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 was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

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It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.

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Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes—unfortunately—it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

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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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Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

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Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

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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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I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived.

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My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability—take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

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They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time... I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

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All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

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Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

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

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So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

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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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The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

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You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

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I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

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I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

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A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

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However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult, by definition, to fake.

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Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He'd done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

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How do you do that? Mennis asked, frowning. What? Smile so much. Oh, I'm just a happy person.

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The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

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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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Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

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If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

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