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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
George R. R. Martin
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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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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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It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?
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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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A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.
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I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.
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You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
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The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
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...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
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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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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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They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
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The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
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Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
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For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.
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The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
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I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.
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One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
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There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.
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