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But a living is not a life.

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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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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