Patrick Rothfuss: Frases en inglés

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

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear

“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Fuente: The Name of the Wind

“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.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)

“Anyone can love a thing. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Contexto: 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.

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear

“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. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Fuente: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)

“I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.”

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Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Contexto: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.

“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear

“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”

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“I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Fuente: The Name of the Wind

“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.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Fuente: The Name of the Wind

“Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.”
Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El temor de un hombre sabio

Fuente: The Wise Man's Fear

“Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Fuente: The Name of the Wind

“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Fuente: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Fuente: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

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Patrick Rothfuss libro El nombre del viento

Variante: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Fuente: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Contexto: “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.”