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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Mere
Friend
Best
Uncalled
Acquaintances
Fond
Pessimism
Acquaintance
Barely

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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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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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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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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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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
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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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