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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.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

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