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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.
Surrender
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Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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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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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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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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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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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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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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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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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
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It has been quite a weight, hasn't it? Tam asked. What weight? Rand replied. That lost hand you've been carrying. Rand looked down at his stump. Yes. I believe it has been at that.
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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