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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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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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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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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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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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