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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.”
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 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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The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
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You know, I could have carried you.
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I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
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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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Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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