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A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Brandon Sanderson

It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
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Book Morning Reading
Act with honor, and Honor will aid you
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Act Aids Honor
I strive for nothing if not consistency
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Consistency Nothing Strive
She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another’s problems before your own.
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Humble Taken Teaching
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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Different Elevators Frightened
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly…timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
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Confused Innovation Unfortunate
Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man’s opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I’m the one with the armies.
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Arrogant Guess Man Own Perhaps
What did you put in the fire?” Kaladin said. “To make that special smoke?” “Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.” “But, I saw-” “What you saw belongs to you.
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Fire Mean Thinking
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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Make Men Motivation Sense
You’re a sword not a palm tree
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Palm Sword Tree
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?
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Kids Mean School
If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.
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Book Kings Matter
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
I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
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Eye Men Storm
The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
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Character Hands Interesting
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
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Ideas Leadership Men

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