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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
Humans
Come
Someday
Thing
Killed
Things
Meat
Worry
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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 began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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