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Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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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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You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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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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Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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