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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.
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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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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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I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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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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...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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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
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I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
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Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
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There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth. Vashet smiled lazily. And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me. She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass. I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.
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