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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

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
Vision
Seen
Passion
Often
Men
Mad
Fantasy

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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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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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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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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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