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Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

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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.
Odd
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Love

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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 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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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
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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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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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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
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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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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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