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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 strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
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I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
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I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
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Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.
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One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
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I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?
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When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
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A man could not always be where he belonged, though.
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Ser Jaime? Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman.I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back? A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. I dreamed of you, he said.
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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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In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
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We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
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She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.
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I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.
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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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Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
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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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If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
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