impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's works (@TimMayr) #6241
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FYI I believe the second book in the Mistborn Series is spelled the "Well of Ascension", not "Well of Ascention". I know it's small and I'm not trying to nitpick you too much but I just so happened to notice it so I figured I'd let you know. Thanks for spending the time to add the quotes though! |
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@AnnaBuchholz Oh yeah you're totally right. English isn't my native language, and Ascension was always a hard word for me, so I kinda just hit keys until the spellchecker went silent. |
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# Conflicts: # frontend/static/quotes/english.json
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Ill be really honest, its kind of a pain reviewing 250 quotes. Everytime i think about looking at this i just feel overwhelmed and put it off for later.. |
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| "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", |
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Can we split fl to "f" and "l"?
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| "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", |
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Requires reading the book to know these names and understand the meaning of the quote.
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| "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", |
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Don't want quotes about that.
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| "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", |
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Don't think that we want quotes with this meaning.
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| "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", |
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| "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", |
| "id": 7715 | ||
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| "text": "How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?", |
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Don't want the word "anal" in a quote.
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| "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", |
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Missing space after …, missing space after "what the stars were."
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| "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", |
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| "text": "Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.", |
| "id": 7788 | ||
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| "text": "Ashamed? Ashamed? To rob these? After what you people have done to the Roughs all these years? This isn't shameful. This here, this is payback.", |
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| "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", |
| "id": 7802 | ||
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| "text": "He was not a zealot; he would never be a man of extreme passion. In the end, he followed Shu-Dereth because it made sense. That would have to be enough.", |
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| "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", | ||
| "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", |
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| "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", | ||
| "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", |
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| "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", | ||
| "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", |
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| "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", | ||
| "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", |
| "id": 7867 | ||
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| "text": "Wasing the where of what?\nLestibournes. Lefting I'm born. I've been abandoned", |
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| "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", |
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| "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", |
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Nothing about butts please.
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| "text": "And Renarin? Dalinar, you have two sons, in case you have forgotten. Do you even care about this child's condition? Or is he nothing to you, now that he can't become a soldier?", |
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| "text": "They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn....", |
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Extra "." after burn....
| "id": 7894 | ||
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| "text": "Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness. Music when they kill.", |
| "id": 7904 | ||
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| "text": "Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.", |
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| "text": "The Unmade were obviously fabrications of folklore. Curiously, most were not considered individuals, but instead personifications of kinds of destruction. This quote is from Traxil, line 33, considered a primary source, though I doubt its authenticity.", | ||
| "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", |
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Missing "," after The Way of Kings.
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| "text": "What I saw on that battlefield... those red eyes... Sir, I'm with you. I will follow you to the ends of the storms themselves.", |
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A lot of source names include an extra space before Brandon Sanderson. Can we remove that?
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Please convert all -- to single dashes (-).
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Please remove extra spaces before ellipsis character (…).
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Added around 250 English quotes related to Brandon Sanderson's works
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