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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist tele-playwright short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
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Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.
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When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
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The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
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One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
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Power resides where men believe it to reside.
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Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
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You look different now. Like a proper little girl, (said Gendry.) I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns, (said Arya.) Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change.
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I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)
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You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
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I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.
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Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.
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When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.
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The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont
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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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I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.
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When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
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On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
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I would choose freedom over comfort every time.
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