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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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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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Peril

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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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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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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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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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