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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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