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“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: hoid, stories

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“For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: dreams, glory, hoid, wit

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#3

“One can have a wit, but not a witless”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: humor, wit

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#4

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: hoid, humor

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#5

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: storytelling

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#6

“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: dalinar, sacrifice, victory

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#7

“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: dreams, expectations, hopes

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#8

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#9

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#10

“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

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#11

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

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#12

“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: insecurity

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#13

“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#14

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

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#15

“A man found himself when he was alone. You only had one person to chat with, one person to blame. He”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

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#16

“I ain’t drunk,” Wayne said, sniffling. “I’m investigatin’ alternative states of sobriety.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#17

“Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#18

“Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#19

“Greet every morning with a smile. That way it won’t know what you’re planning to do to it?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#20

“You,” she said, spearing Wayne in the chest with a finger. “I thought I told you not to come back.” “I thought I ignored you.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#21

“It's better if I have a hat...You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat." -Wayne.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#22

“He’d always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they’d had the most practice not dying.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#23

“Proper loafing requires company. One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#24

“All people are foolish, just in different ways,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#25

“He’d always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they’d had the most practice not dying. He”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#26

“One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

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#27

“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

tags: greatness, leadership, priorities

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#28

“Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

tags: aim, bullets, life

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#29

“The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It’s in how they make use of what life has shown them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

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#30

“Funny, how quickly someone can stop calling you a miscreant and a rogue when they want your help,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

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