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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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
Kill
Means
Nothing
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Trying
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Underrated
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Boredom

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