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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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his snores sounded like ducks mating.
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Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
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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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In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
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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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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
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The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
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There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me - Maester Cressen
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Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)
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Everyone who isn't us is an enemy. - Cersei
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The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.
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I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.
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The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
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My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
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You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
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Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
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she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
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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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