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Science is just magic with better PR.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Magic
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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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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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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Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever. He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. That, he said firmly to the room in general, is what comes of working with iron every day.
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I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.
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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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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
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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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She looked at me. What? Is there something wrong with my idea? It's not very heroic, I said dismissively. I was expecting something with a little more flair. Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home, she said. You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.
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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons. Bast smiled a terrible smile. There is only my kind. Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
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If you fall, you fall, Elodin shrugged. Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.
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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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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
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