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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
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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