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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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But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
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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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Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.
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Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm.
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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 treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
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It's not, Mormont told him. Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
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She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
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It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.
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You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
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I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.
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I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
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That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
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Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
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