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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
Prison
Freedom
Making
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Men
Prisons

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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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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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