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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Whores
Heretics
Heretic
Thieves

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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.
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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One was blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.
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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
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Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
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Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.
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