George R. R. Martin Quotes

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

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

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I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

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She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

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Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, Ned said evenly. Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

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The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

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Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it's always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

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You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

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I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

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The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.

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It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

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If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

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I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

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The House of Fantasy is built of stone and wood and furnished in High Medieval. Its people travel by horse and galley, fight with sword and spell and battle-axe, communicate by palantir or raven, and break bread with elves and dragons.
The House of Science Fiction is built of duralloy and plastic and furnished in Faux Future. Its people travel by starship and aircar, fight with nukes and tailored germs, communicate by ansible and laser, and break protein bars with aliens.
The House of Horror is built of bone and cobwebs and furnished in Ghastly Gothick. Its people travel only by night, fight with anything that will kill messily, communicate in screams and shrieks and gibbers, and sip blood with vampires and werewolves.

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The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

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The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you'll never know." - Euron Greyjoy

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With great power comes great responsibility, Stan Lee once wrote. Spidey's credo articulates the basic premise of every superhero universe, including ours. But Lord Acton wrote that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The tension between those two truths is where the drama comes in. My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

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It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

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I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

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I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

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Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

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They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

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Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

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Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

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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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