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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Sadder
Battle
Lost

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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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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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Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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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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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
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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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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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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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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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