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All stories are true, Skarpi said. But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
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I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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