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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.

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
Sharing
Sure
Pain
Business
Doesn
Mind
Fitz
Loosen

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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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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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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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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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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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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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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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