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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
Nothing
Heart
Men
Expectation
Expectations
Failure
Takes

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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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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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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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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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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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