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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

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
Dying
Reconcile
Memories
Savage
Humanity
Savages
Voice
Sublime
Night
Scream
Back
Flames
Effortlessly
Hard
Voices
Screams
Men
Range
Lifted

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