George R. R. Martin Quotes
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It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
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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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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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They hate you because you act like you're better than they are
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Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
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I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
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It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.
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What the King dreams, the Hand builds.
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Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.
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I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
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None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
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I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.
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Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)
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I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
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I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
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On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
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You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.
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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
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Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
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Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.
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As we sin, so do we suffer
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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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She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
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If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.
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Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.
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I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
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Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.
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Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.
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