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The fight isn't over until you win.

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
Determination
Fight
Winning
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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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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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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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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