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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.
Pretty
Alive
Remember
Good
Counts
Time
Failed
Hardly
Staying
Usually

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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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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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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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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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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun. derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.
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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
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