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.
BRANDON SANDERSONYou see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Eternity ended ten years ago.
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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
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That’s the point, isn’t it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We’ll win in the end.
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I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
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Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
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Why do they call it research if I’ve only done it this one time?
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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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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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I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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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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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
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Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
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The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
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What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
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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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Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.
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People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
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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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Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.
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[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.
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And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you
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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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Sometimes, son,” my father said, prying my fingers free, “you have to help the heroes along.
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Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
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