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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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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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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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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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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 both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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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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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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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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