You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
BRANDON SANDERSONIf you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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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People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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The best performances, are those that can be performed once.
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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. “Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things
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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.
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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.
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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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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof?
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Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
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It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
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You’re a sword not a palm tree
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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.
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You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away.
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