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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
Jr.
Dice
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Time

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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
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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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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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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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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
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There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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