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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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Today
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Yesterday
Tomorrow

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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
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If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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