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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
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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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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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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