“You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”

—  Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

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American writer 1948–2007

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