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All stories are true, Skarpi said. But this one really happened, if that's what you mean. He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
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I really don't go in for talking about current events on the blog. The main reason for this is the fact that I am profoundly out of touch with the outside world. I don't have cable and I don't watch the news. On the rare occasion I miss the news and feel the need to absorb some fearmongering bullshit, I just drop a tab of acid and read a Lovecraft story. There's less pretense that way.
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With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
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Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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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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Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
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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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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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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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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
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Born:
June 6, 1973
(age 51)
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Patrick James Rothfuss is an American writer of epic fantasy and college lecturer. He is best known for his projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.
Known for:
The Doors of Stone
The Name of the Wind (2007)
The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014)
Unfettered (2013)
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