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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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Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes. The whole of the realm denies it, brother, said Renley. Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.
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A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
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Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
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Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.
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Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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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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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
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a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.
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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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And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.
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Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. Lord Varys, he said from the saddle, sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy. How odd. I think quite the same of you.
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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 love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.
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The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
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Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.
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Fear cuts deeper than swords.
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Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
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I would choose freedom over comfort every time.
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My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.
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