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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.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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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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Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.
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Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
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The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
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Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
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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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