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My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

Brandon Sanderson

You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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Ending Finish Learn
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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Absence Discomfort Joy
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
‎”To Parlin’s mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
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Bleeding Mind Tables
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.
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Fashion Reading Religious
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.” Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact.
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Best Effort People Use
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
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Delusion Kind Self
I still doubt it will work.” “You’d doubt the sun’s rising if you weren’t proven wrong each day,” Raoden said with a smile.
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Day Doubt Each Rising
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
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Good Person Polite Upbringing
It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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Better Imitating Versions
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
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Death Journey Weakness
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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Book Trying Understanding
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
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Holy Lists Noblemen
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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Belief Safe Thinking
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location.
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Cities People Rocks
I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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Dear Made Universe

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