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

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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
Making
Makes
Men

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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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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But a living is not a life.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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