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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Tends
Devices
Left
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Looks
Make
Afire

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