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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
Making
Makes
Men
Prisons
Prison
Freedom

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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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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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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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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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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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But a living is not a life.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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