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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?

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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Tomorrow
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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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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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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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