"One can have a wit, but not a witless

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 ~












For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind di...
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"This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit.""Yes, He tasted quite delicious.
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
"Does the king know you're back?""Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison,...
"Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books ca...
"I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway.
"Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.
"I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.
"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.
"I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong plac
"What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often...
"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...
"Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.
"This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity."The ugly l...
"Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.