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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
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As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.
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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever. He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. That, he said firmly to the room in general, is what comes of working with iron every day.
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