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Better to face the bear than run from it.

Robert Jordan

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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.
Better
Wot
Bear
Bears
Face
Faces
Running

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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
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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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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
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Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
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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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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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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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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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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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Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.
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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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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
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