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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Marvelous
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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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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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.
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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
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Practice makes the master.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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