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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
Tomorrow
Lose
Loses
Shall
Looking
Didn
Fitz
Pigs
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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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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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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven 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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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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 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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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