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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

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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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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But a living is not a life.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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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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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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