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Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

Brandon Sanderson

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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Authority History Shoved Worst
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Giving Purpose Thinking
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Advice Alive Men
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Belief Safe Thinking
Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Giving Pushing Strength Wall
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Important Mean Victory
Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Cities Possession Walks
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
Kelsier smiled. ‘It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.’
BRANDON SANDERSON

Empire Mean Play Powerful
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
BRANDON SANDERSON

Metal Steel Writing
You’ve managed– in our short three years together– to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That’s kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It’s a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn’t you say?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Brother Father Fiannce Homicidal Years
You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Ending Finish Learn
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Fashion Reading Religious
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. “Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things
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House Laughing Years
Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Control Handle Soemone
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Giving People Response

Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

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