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There are no men like me. There's only me

George R. R. Martin

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
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Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.
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I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
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I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.
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The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.
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Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
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Reading. That was the sport I was good at.
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When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
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Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.
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Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
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Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
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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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In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
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We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
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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 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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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.
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