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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

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
Fool
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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?
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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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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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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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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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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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 man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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 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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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