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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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
Prisons
Prison
Freedom
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Men

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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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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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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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