Source: The Name of the Wind
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The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind, also called The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One, is a heroic fantasy novel written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It is the first book in the ongoing fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle, followed by The Wise Man's Fear. It was published on March 27, 2007 by DAW Books.
“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Variant: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Context: “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.”
“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind
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Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 39, “Enough Rope” (p. 281)
Variant: It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 8, “Thieves, Heretics, and Whores” (p. 63)
“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”
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“By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“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.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 1, “A Place for Demons” (p. 5)
