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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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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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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
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I don't speak fluent bumpkin.
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For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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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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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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Science is just magic with better PR.
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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass. I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.
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Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
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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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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
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For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.
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