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Патрик Ротфусс — американский писатель-фантаст. Известность ему принёс опубликованный в 2007 году дебютный роман «Имя ветра», начавшего трилогию «Хроника Убийцы Короля». За свои произведения писатель был удостоен нескольких премий. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Июнь 1973
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“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind

“When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

“Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 45, “Interlude—Some Tavern Tale” (p. 333)

“It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

“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 книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: Chapter 14, “The Name of the Wind” (p. 113)
Контексте: 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.

“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind

“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

“Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Источник: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Контексте: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.

“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 323)

“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

“No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 40, “On the Horns” (p. 290)
Контексте: Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Вариант: There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

“I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind

“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Name of the Wind

Источник: The Name of the Wind

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear

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

Patrick Rothfuss книга The Wise Man's Fear

Источник: The Wise Man's Fear