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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
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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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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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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