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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Confuses
Insincere
Honesty
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Facts
Makes
Truth
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