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I can rest when I'm dead.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Dead
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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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We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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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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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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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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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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Time to toss the dice
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
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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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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
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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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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
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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 pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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