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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
Robin Hobb
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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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Men
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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