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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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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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Fitz
Loosen
Sharing
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Pain
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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But a living is not a life.
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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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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 think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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