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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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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.
Remember
Good
Counts
Time
Failed
Hardly
Staying
Usually
Pretty
Alive

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The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor. -Logain
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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