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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
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Men
Expectation
Expectations
Failure
Takes
Nothing
Heart

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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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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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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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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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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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But a living is not a life.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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