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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

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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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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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Practice makes the master.
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...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
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