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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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