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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
Science
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The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?
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If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
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It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.
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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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You know, I could have carried you.
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The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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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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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
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He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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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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There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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You may have heard of me.
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