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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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But a living is not a life.
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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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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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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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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
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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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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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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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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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