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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
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Well
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Life
Ears
Snuff
Meant
Forbid
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Nose
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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