George R. R. Martin - Man Quotes

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

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Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

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You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

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Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

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Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

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I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, yet condemn me to linger on so long, frozen and forgotten? What use could they have for an old done man like me?... I remember, Sam. I still remember. Remember what? Dragons, Aemon whispered.

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Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. — Lyanna

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

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Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

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Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself... swore to myself... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies... now I can't even tell one from the other.

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I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

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Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

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Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

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Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

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A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes, the Mountain declared. Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two... and if not, the man after him will have six.

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If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

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When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

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Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

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Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

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Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

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That man said he'd take your head too. Well, as to that, Yoren said, if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.

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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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In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

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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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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

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His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

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