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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.

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
Life
Ears
Snuff
Meant
Forbid
Lead
Threaten
Hear
Nose
Alone
Noses
Force
Nonsense
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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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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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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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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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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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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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