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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
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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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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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