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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.
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No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
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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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One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
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Why ask for truth, Ser Barristan said softly, if you close your ears to it?
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Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
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We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
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I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
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What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth
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We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
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As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.
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