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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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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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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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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.
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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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