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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

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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.
Everything
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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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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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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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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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You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
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