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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.

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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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But a living is not a life.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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