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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.

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
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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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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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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