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I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Like
Sharks
Swimming
Stop
Dies
Reading
Read
Keep
Always

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