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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
Prison
Freedom
Making
Makes
Men
Prisons

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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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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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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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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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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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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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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 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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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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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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