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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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But a living is not a life.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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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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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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