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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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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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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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