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We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

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.
Limits
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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.
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I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.
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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
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Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
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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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Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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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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Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
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