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And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you

Brandon Sanderson

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
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
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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Knowing Simple Sometimes
I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
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Bleed Seen Steelheart
Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
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Control Handle Soemone
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
I’ve found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you’re spending too much.
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Found Half Missing You
This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren’t the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
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Completely Cute
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
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
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Book Moving Want
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
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.
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Ruins Said Welcome
Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They’re precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
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Giving Guilt Responsibility Up
I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said. “Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It’s not a very nice place these days.
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Nice People Real
Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
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Aunt Heart Men
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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Ago Boys Expectations Long

And Vin liked solitude. When you’re alone, no one can betray you

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