Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.


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the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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You mistake patience for forbearance.
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Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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We were shooting well both inside and outside.
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The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
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A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree.
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A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
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I wish I was home", She said miserably.
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Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, y...
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I am my own woman.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
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There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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[He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
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Their bodies were found naked, their necks had cuts and without any identification. We suspect that ...
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Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
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A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
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I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
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The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
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Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?
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Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
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A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
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The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
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Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
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They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won.
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Underwear is the female second skin.
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When the candles are out all women are fair
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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
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She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
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So few grown women like their lives
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
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As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.
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I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
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The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psych...
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
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You were made to be kissed, often and well.
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...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
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If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.

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Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
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I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
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The man who fears losing has already lost.
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He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
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When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
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Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
- Daenerys Targaryen
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If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o...
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What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

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When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
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Valar Morghulis.
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Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
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My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
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Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
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Nothing burns like the cold.
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If I look back I am lost.
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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
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The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
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Winter is coming.
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The things I do for love.
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Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
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You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

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Life is not a song, sweetling.
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Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
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Every flight begins with a fall.
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No Queen has clean hands.
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
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Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.
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My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
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A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
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What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
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Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...
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Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ...
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A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
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The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...
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Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
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A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
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He has hands like two white spiders.
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He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
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A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
It takes courage to admit fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Some men think because they're afraid to do.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.

“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN