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I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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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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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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Denna is a wild thing, I explained. Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
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Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
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