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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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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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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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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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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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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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