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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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Madison
Wisconsin
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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Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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