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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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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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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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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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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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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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A man can get killed in there.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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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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