Brandon Sanderson - Work Quotes

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Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

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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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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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I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

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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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So, Marasi said, you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic— Don't try, Waxillium said. Logic doesn't work on Wayne. I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller, Wayne explained. It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle.

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They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod—apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn't taste too good. Kolo? In fact, it's so violently bitter that no one can keep it down." "It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly

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The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?

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