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George Martin Inspirational Quotes (452)

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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
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Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.
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The man who fears losing has already lost.
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Books are dead men talking.
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A crown should not sit easy on the head.
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A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
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In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
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You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
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When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you
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Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.
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Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
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Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
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You know nothing, Jon Snow
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Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
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What do we say to the Lord of Death? Not today.
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I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least. - Eddard Stark
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This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.
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There are no happy endings.
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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
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All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes
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I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things. Do you? Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.
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She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
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