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I have been despised by better men than you.
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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Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.
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Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?
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When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.
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