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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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I’d heard you were dead.” I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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You may have heard of me.
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
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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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I guess I'm destined to be loveless
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