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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
Gloves
Diplomacy
Fists
Power
Glove
Cloaks
Fist
Velvet

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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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