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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.
Take
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Breathing
Violent
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Away
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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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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Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
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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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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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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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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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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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