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

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
Velvet
Gloves
Diplomacy
Fists
Power
Glove
Cloaks
Fist

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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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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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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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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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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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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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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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