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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Brandon Sanderson

What? Is that boy crazy?” “Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think,” Sazed said with a smile. “However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven’t you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room?” “I thought he was just creepy.
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Boys Crazy Hardly Notice Thinking
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
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Book Giving People Response
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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Giving Purpose Thinking
Raoden looked up at his friend. “We’re not dead, Galladon, and we’re not damned. We’re just unfinished.
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Gallon Looked Unfinished
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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Clever Fists World
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
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Children Dead Feelings
To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain–leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.
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Heart Life Person Roots Uncertain
When I write my books, actually I’m known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
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Book Feet Writing
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
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Belief Strong
One can have a wit, but not a witless
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People Wit Witness
This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Brevity Fantasy Trouble
Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that’s why there’s so much training. The ones who hold aren’t the courageous ones, they’re the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
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Army Princess Running
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
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Cities Possession Walks
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Ending Finish Learn
Think of the possibilities–if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red–you’d always be thinking, ‘Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
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About Look Monotonous Possiblities River Think

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

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