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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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Pigs
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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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Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
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It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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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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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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