imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
BRANDON SANDERSONNot all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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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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Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.
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Be warned – Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.
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My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
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They tried boiling books, but that didn’t work very well.” “I’m surprised they haven’t tried boiling one another.” “Oh, it’s been tried,” Galladon said. “Fortunately. something happens to us during the Shaod-apparently the flesh of a dead man doesn’t taste too good. Kolo?
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Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
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Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
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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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I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
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I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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The best performances, are those that can be performed once.
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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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I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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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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The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
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She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another’s problems before your own.
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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Every man is a hero of his own story.
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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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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
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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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True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
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