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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.
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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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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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 have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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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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If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.
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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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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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