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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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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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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless what is literature discussion and just talk about stories.
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
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I learned to love the feel of good words.
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I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just putting it out there for people to see. If people think this is cool, I'm hoping they'll tell their friends.
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Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
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Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
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Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
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I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.
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Auri, I asked slowly, are you joking with me? She looked up and grinned. Yes I am, she said proudly. Isn't it wonderful?
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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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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
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