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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.

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.
Alive
Remember
Good
Counts
Time
Failed
Hardly
Staying
Usually
Pretty

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Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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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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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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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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A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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The Light willing, we will see one another again, Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved. Not like us, Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.
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I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
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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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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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