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“Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed. “Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled . . . beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed. Suddenly you are useless. A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“The sensation—it’s not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you’d feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just . . . haze and smoke inside. Like you’re already dead.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
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