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“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,
“thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Jasnah didn’t want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you’d use your best sword to spread butter.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“War is the last option of the state that has failed,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“But the person who is willing to reconsider their assumptions? The hero who can sit down and reevaluate their life? Well, now that is a gemstone that truly glitters, friend.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Do not deny your own talents simply because you envy another's.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Kelsier watched after him, then did the only rational thing. He ate the bolt he'd taken from the bottom of the stool.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Secret History

“I'm smart enough not to follow my own advice, thank you very much.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Art is not art if it has a function.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“A man who speaks his mind is a man with mind to speak of.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“You sent him to the sky to die, assassin," Kaladin said, Stormlight puffing from his lips, "but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Every man is a hero of his own story.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris