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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
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Fishes
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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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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