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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.

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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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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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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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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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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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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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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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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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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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