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George R.R. Martin

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I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE
Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in th...
BRIAN HARRIS
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest...
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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
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'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones...
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Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.
REYNA PRYDE
It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as w...
ADAM SCYTHE
Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.
KRISTIN HANNAH
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
STEVEN ADLER
I don't know if scars heal, but I know wounds heal, that's for sure.
TOMMY POLO
Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; We cannot heal the throbb...
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Time does not heal all wounds, you do...
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Deep wounds do not heal easily, but I think this will be a first step toward some reconciliation and...
LONNIE RANDOLPH
Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER
When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and m...
NIKITA DUDANI
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
MAO ZEDONG
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting
MAO TSE-TUNG
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
HELEN GARNER
I've seen God heal some people, and then I've seen God didn't heal some. So all we're asked to do is...
DAVID HEMPHILL
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Cut a word and it will bleed.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times,...
BETH DITTO
I've seen Steelheart bleed.
And I will see him bleed again.
BRANDON SANDERSON
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
It is Europe's response to the end of the Cold War and an opportunity to heal the wounds of the past...
GUENTER VERHEUGEN
Truthful Lie;Lieing that helps heal our emotional & psychological wounds.
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It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.
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For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
to heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up
RUPI KAUR
The time heals old wounds but the timeline brings the same old wounds back.
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Become triumphant with the memories of new and powerful positivity, for the negative forms that have...
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Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left wit...
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Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
SHANNON L. ALDER
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
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Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Certainly, time can heal the deepest of wounds. A scar is often inevitable, though!
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Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you a...
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The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY
In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled--they heal best left unwatched.
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Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look...
JOAN BORYSENKO
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR
I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL
Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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We would be wrong to hide our extreme disappointment, and the wounds of that disappointment will not...
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For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Ea...
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Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable t...
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Oblivion cures the old wounds.
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If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our...
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What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them i...
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It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the pow...
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The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of...
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A careless word may kindle strife.A cruel word may wreck a life.A timely word may level stress.A lo...
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the brok...
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We have launched rapid efforts to heal the wounds ... In 10 days 30 of our citizens have lost their ...
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It is when you are able to see many things far off that you can heal the wounds of the past
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
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I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
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[Stares at dead knight, killed by the Direwolves]

Ersen: If he had sounded his horn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
I’m here Bethie. Loving you. Wanting you. I’m not going to run into a hole and lick my wounds. I...
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I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
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We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
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My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the...
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You think you can make me like you again?”
I look over at her and give my head the slightest...
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As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.
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Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the...
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
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I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…
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If we do not have reconciliation, we will not be able to heal the wounds, they will remain open. We ...
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It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, ...
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Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.
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At first, we had to pull nails out of old boards, straighten them and use them again. We finally got...
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There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal thos...
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Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothin...
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I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm t...
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. Th...
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Cancer does not discriminate.
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Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.
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For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lo...
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Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
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The Bear and the Maiden Fair


A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and b...
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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
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It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
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... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
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They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
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You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. ...
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The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
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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 man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
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A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
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Fear cuts deeper than swords.
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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 ...
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Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
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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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Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...
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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”
“If you want to conquer the world, you...
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The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
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Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
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Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...
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There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid e...
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...
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My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ...
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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
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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 yo...
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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...
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It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
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The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
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Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.
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Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
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Those are brave men... lets go kill them
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Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
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Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
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You were made to be kissed, often and well.
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Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
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...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine a...
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And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different co...
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If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.

"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout h...
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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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I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I wan...
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We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
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Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
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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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You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow....
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Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
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Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
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They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
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El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte.
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I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...
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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had...
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A Lannister always pays his debts.
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Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last...
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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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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!�...
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I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not te...
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I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
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When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
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When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and moun...
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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
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If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ...
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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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She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
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It was all too much. For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to...
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What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.
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Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the wi...
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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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Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a ...
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There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
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When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that...
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The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. A...
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My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
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Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
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Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...
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Laughter is poison to fear.
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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."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D...
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Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
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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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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...
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The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking...
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The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
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He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde...
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No Queen has clean hands.
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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...
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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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The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her...
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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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She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
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As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost...
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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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A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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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
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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