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I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC

George R. R. Martin

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.
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Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.
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I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.
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A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
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A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.
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He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
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Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner. - Tyrion
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I can be humbler than anyone.
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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
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Nothing burns like the cold.
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The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
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Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.
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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
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If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
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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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I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
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Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
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Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.
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If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
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