That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
BRANDON SANDERSONIf men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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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Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
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People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
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Kelsier leaned forward again. ‘But, you weren’t born an aristocrat. You’re not noble, Vin. You don’t have to play by their rules–and that makes you even more powerful.
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If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
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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.
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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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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends – when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
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…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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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.’
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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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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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I’m far more than just a ‘mild’ annoyance–people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?
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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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