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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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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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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
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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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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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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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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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Beauty holds more worth than gold.
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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Always plan for the worst, child that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
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Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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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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