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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

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
Fishes
Sticks
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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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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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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