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Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
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The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
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I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.
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I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.
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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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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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What are the three most important rules of the chemist? This I knew from Ben. Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.
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I’d heard you were dead.” I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.
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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
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I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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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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For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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