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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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Lived
Fool
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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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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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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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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