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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
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Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen
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Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.
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