“Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
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Brandon Sanderson 313
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Noble House (1981)
Context: "Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death — we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We are a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece."
What did you see?"
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