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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
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
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The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
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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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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons. Bast smiled a terrible smile. There is only my kind. Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
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Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
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I'm kind of balanced between excited about the potential of the project, and the knowledge that I shouldn't get my hopes up. I like to be practical, and the truth is, these deals fall apart all the time.
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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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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
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It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.
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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
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Small facts lead to great knowing.
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“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”
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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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