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I can rest when I'm dead.

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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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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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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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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
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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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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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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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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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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
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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 grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
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Should and would build no bridges.
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The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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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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