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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Robert Jordan

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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
Jr.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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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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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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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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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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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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