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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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Stick
Fishes
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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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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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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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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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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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