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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
Maybe
May
Human

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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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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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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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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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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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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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