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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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I learned to love the feel of good words.
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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's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
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You never do things the easy way, do you? she said. There's an easy way? I asked.
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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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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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
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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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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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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.
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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass. I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.
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