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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
Heretics
Heretic
Thieves
Whores

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When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where to go? where to go? near and far. Here they are. see a man without a face? move like ghosts from place to place. whats their plan? whats their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
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I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.
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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
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If you fall, you fall, Elodin shrugged. Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
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I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
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If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
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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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