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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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Cutting
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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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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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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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