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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

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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.
Absurd
Believed
Lying

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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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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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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
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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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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
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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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The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
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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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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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