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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
Diplomacy
Fists
Power
Glove
Cloaks
Fist
Velvet
Gloves

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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use 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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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 never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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But a living is not a life.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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