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Brandon Sanderson

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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Army Optimistic Skills
How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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Frowning Happy Person
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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Mushroom Perios Requuires
…Generally people don’t recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read.
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Book Meaningful Teacher
To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.
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Believe Seemed Want
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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Fate People Reading Relaxing Tea
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.
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Grief Lord Men
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
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Faces Hats Looks
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
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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Important Mean Victory
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
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Defined Flaws Men
If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
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Anything Better Doing
Well Vin says that there’s something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn’t have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color.
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Blood Running Thinking
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.
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Clever Fake Men
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
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
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Doctors Reading Writing

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