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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
Robert Jordan
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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
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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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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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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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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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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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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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 a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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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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