Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love, Heart, Perfect

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.57, Penguin

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  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

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  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

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  Thinking, Fantasy Stories, Answers

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.521, Penguin

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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 introspection.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Teacher, Travel, Men

  "The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 1, 2011.

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  Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Men, Fire

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Powerful, Dragons, Shoes

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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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Brave, Enough

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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  There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, www.abebooks.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

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  Clever, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Half

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.615, Penguin

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• Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mistake, Dark, Light

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• Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

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  Heart, Son, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK

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  It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

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  Life, Healing, Identity

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Inspiration, Mad, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Crush, Heart, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.457, Penguin

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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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Believe, Giving

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.323, Penguin

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• Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

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  People, Stories, Happens

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• If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

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  Stories, Way, Remember

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• If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

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  Dream, Fall, Sometimes

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.338, Penguin

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• It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Fear, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.521, Penguin

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• Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Reading, Roots

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

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  Imperfect, Explicit, Translations

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.221, Penguin

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• Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

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  Music, Play, Sound

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.308, Hachette UK

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• But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Perfect, Fantasy Love, And Love

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.57, Penguin

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