“One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.”

— Patrick Rothfuss , book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

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American fantasy writer 1973

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“If the sign were not related to its object except by the mind thinking of them separately, it would not fulfil the function of a sign at all.”

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