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.
BRANDON SANDERSON[Omin] …All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise – some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Why do they call it research if I’ve only done it this one time?
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You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
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That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
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And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you
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I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
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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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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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I’m just good at ignoring the fact that I’m terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you’ll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.
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Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. “Does nothing frighten you, sule?” “Actually, pretty much everything here does.
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Those books are invariably described as “important”- which in my experience, pretty much means that they’re boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)
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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
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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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Anyway, if there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?
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Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
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