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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

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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.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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You must surrender before you can guide.
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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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The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
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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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May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon
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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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Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
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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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If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed
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Should and would build no bridges.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
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