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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

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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Wrong
Prone
Tongue
Questions
Silence

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