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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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Born: 1948
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Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
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Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
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These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
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The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
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I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.
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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
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she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
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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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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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I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.
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The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.
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Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.
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People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am.
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