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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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No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
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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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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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