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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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This is the nature of love. Vashet said. To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
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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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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
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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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