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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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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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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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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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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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