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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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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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Velvet
Gloves
Diplomacy
Fists
Power
Glove
Cloaks

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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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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 both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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