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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.

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
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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 you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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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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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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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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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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