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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
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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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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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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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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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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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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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
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