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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

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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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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
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Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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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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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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Take what you want, and pay for it.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat
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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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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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A man can get killed in there.
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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