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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.

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
Air
Stillness
Inside
Contrast
Words
Fellow
Felt
Illness
Jumbled
Always
Fellows
Rattle
Suddenly
Anxieties
Anxiety
Tiresome
Communication
Filling

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