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If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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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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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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Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
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When the end comes, I will meet it raging.
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The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.
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It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.
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Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.
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You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.
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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
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I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things. Do you? Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.
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Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
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There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
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The man who fears losing has already lost.
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Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow
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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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Mothers. The man made a word sound like a curse. I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
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Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
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