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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Brandon Sanderson

You’re a sword not a palm tree
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Palm Sword Tree
This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren’t the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
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Completely Cute
It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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Better Imitating Versions
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
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Steps Steps Forward
Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Advice Alive Men
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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Faces Hats Looks
Act with honor, and Honor will aid you
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Act Aids Honor
Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Knowing Simple Sometimes
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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Action Book Careful Tired Trying
Waxillium glanced at him. “That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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Fortunately Pretzel Ridiculous
It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Happens Trouble Wayne
Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. “Does nothing frighten you, sule?” “Actually, pretty much everything here does.
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Cobblestone Everything Nothing Trying
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain.
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Interesting Leadership Two
I’m far more than just a ‘mild’ annoyance–people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Cause Frustrating Good
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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Brother Father Fiannce Homicidal Years
War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he’s still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.
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Caught Dreamer Violence War

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