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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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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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