Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 3

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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• 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.

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  Wall, Giving, Would Be

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

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  Men, Insult, Mines

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.229, Macmillan

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• A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

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  Leadership, Men, Ideas

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn”, p.156, Macmillan

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

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  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

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  Clever, Planning, Assuming

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• Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

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  Who I Am, May

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• Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky." Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond." Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.

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  Thinking, Lucky, Littles

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• I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.

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  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Names, Mad, Hallucinations

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• What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

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  Mean, Thinking, Fire

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan

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• I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

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  Mean, Rifles, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.77, Delacorte Press

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• I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

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  Betrayal, Thinking, Knowing

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.283, Macmillan

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• ...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. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)

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  Meaningful, Teacher, Book

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• The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

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  Way, Life Is, Economics

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

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  Men, Competition, Succeed

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

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  Eye, Pride, Self

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.5, Macmillan

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• 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?

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  Brother, Father, Years

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• Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Secret, Plot, Plans

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• My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Use, Existence

  "Warbreaker". Book by Brandon Sanderson, June 9, 2009.

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• Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

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  Trying, Firsts, Get Up

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Reckoners Series”, p.144, Delacorte Press

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• imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

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  Real, People, Substance

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

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  Evil, Soul, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.55, Macmillan

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• You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

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  Hate, People, Devotion

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.74, Macmillan

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• To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

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  Believe, Want

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