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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Tried
Teaching
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Men
Seduce
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This is the nature of love. Vashet said. To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
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I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
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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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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
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If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving books you love good reviews is one of the nicest things you can do for an author. What's more it's good for the entire community.
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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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