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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

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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
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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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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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain, Matrim Cauthon whispered. Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
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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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