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Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.
George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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George Raymond Richard Martin
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...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
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It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.
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You're mine, she whispered. Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
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She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
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If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
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For the night is dark and full of terrors.
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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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We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Jon Snow
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