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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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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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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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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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We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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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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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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