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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Wise
True
Change
Enough
Altogether
Staying
Wild
Somehow
Brave

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