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

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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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Stick
Fishes
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Dead

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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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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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But a living is not a life.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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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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