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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure 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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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