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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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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.
Windows
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Ends
Always
Think
Thinking
Ornamental
Wot

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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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Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.
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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
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Better to face the bear than run from it.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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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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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
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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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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
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