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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

Patrick Rothfuss

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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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Fortitude
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Study

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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.
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I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
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If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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What are the three most important rules of the chemist? This I knew from Ben. Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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Practice makes the master.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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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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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
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