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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

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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.
Wot
Flute
Flutes
Pigs
Teach
Play
Never

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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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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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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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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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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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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
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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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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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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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