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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

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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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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 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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