Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'

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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
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I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.
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'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'