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May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

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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.
Swords
Sharp
Stay
May
Pendragon

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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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I can rest when I'm dead.
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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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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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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.
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.
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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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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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