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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

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
Opposite
Opposites
Choice
Choices
Death
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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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But a living is not a life.
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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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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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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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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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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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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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