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Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
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home
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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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Robin Hobb |
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Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.
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The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of..
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writing
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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.
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courage
fantasy
life
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall p..
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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victory
win
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Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
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Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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present
philosophy
today
tomorrow
poison
longing
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Robin Hobb |
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Robin Hobb |
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Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.
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Robin Hobb |
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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Robin Hobb |
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Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
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Robin Hobb |
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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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He shook his head pityingly. "This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do i..
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reminding
philosophy-of-life
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Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
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if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
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Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.
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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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life
pity
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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pain
pleaseure
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Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.
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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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Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.
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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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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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fitzchivalry-farseer
fitz
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Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.
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Robin Hobb |
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Wolves have no kings.
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All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my wh..
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You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.
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There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
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evening
night
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When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.
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Robin Hobb |
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That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
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Robin Hobb |
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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Robin Hobb |
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.
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Innocent?" He was incensed at her suggestion he was somehow responsible for this mess. "I've done nothing wrong, I intend nothing wrong. I am innocent!" "Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then,"..
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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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the-fool
robin-hobb
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Robin Hobb |
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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Robin Hobb |
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But a living is not a life.
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Robin Hobb |
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Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.
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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die
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difference
wars
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Robin Hobb |
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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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