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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
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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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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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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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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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