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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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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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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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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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