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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
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Never
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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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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
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Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
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When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
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The Light willing, we will see one another again, Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved. Not like us, Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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Always plan for the worst, child that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
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From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.
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