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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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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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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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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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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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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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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 nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.
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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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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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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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