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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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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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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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The city? Tyrion was lost. What city would that be? King's Landing. I am sending you to court. It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. And what am I to do there? Rule, his father said curtly.
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I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.
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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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When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
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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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You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
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Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
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For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.
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I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.
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I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.
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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
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I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.
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You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
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For the night is dark and full of terrors.
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Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
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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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He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
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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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