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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.

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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Killed
Things
Meat
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Maybe
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Humans
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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