Robert Jordan Quotes
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A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
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Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.
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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
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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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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
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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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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
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May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
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Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.
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Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.
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The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.
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I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
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What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
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A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.
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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
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The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.
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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
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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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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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