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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain

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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.
Lions
Stands
Black
Tower
Lion
Towers

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Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.
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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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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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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
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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 be brave when someone needed your protection.
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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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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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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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