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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

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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.
Forward
Whatever
Ends
Way
Lays

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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
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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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You read too much and understand too little.
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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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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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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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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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