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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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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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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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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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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become.- Rand Al'Thor
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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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