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George Martin Inspirational Quotes (452)

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Lady, she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.
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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
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The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
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The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.
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Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
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[Melisandre] His Grace is growing fond of you. [Jon] I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice. Page 58
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
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Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.
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These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
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If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
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I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.
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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
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We'll need to make a litter to carry him, said Osha. No use, said Luwin. I'm dying, woman. You can't, said Rickon angrily. No you can't. Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.
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We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Jon Snow
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One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
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Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.
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Is it so far from madness to wisdom? - Daenerys Targaryen
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Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.
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I like grey characters fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
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If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.
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But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.
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