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"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."

Patrick Rothfuss on Cool

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  • "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

    Thomas Jefferson on Cool

  • "Rather be dead than cool."

    Kurt Cobain on Cool

  • "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

    Angelina Jolie on Cool

  • "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

    Walt Whitman on Cool

  • "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."

    Bill Gates on Cool

More quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

  • "When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap."

  • "I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal."

  • "I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad."

  • "I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal."

  • "My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2."

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