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No man should have another man's voice in his head.

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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.
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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
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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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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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It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
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You read too much and understand too little.
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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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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
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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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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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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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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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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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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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Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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