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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

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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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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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.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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