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Quotes from Oathbringer — Brandon Sanderson

born 1975 United States

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It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth to seek it out.

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Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

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Who would have thought that bearing an ancient, divine mantle of power and honor would involve so many meetings?

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In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

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Every army needed someone to run at the front and soak up arrows.

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New recruits might get bored by guard duty, but you’ll never find a veteran complaining about a nice quiet afternoon of not being stabbed.

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Who cares what your ancestors did, when the enemy is trying to kill you right now?

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Politics is involved, Adolin—so by definition it can’t be easy.

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“When has any tyrant ever said to himself, ‘This is enough’?”

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Some problems could not be fixed with a lie.

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Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.

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All life worked in concert, he’d been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

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But merely being tradition does not make some thing worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because some thing is old it is right.

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Curious, how quickly tyrants grow religious. It must that be convenient to tell yourself that your murders belong to the Almighty instead.

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Expensive, yes. But by definition, therefore, not priceless.

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The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.

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But you should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life.

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It was a frantic, insane brawl for power.

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An army was the sort of thing everyone wanted to have, so long as it was off doing important things elsewhere.

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“Where’s your sense of adventure?”
“I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army.”

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brandon Sanderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.