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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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