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You never do things the easy way, do you? she said. There's an easy way? I asked.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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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