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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
Cats
Cat
Please
Talk
Whomever

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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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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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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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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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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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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