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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

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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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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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 never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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 you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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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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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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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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