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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.
George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
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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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You mistake patience for forbearance.
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There are ghosts everywhere, Ser Jorah said softly. We carry them with us wherever we go.
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Lady, she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.
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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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Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
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So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
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Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
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Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
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Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.
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Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
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She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.
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Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
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Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.
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The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.
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The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
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I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.
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None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
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What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.
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