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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

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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
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Halfway
Dance
Woman
Wells
Well

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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
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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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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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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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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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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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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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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed
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You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease. -General Galgan to Mat
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
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He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
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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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