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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Marvelous
Dark
Nothing
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Beard

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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
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And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
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Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
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Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
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What were you thinking? Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.
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There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
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But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
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I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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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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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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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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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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