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“The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Dark
#Orcs
#Horror
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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 you fear what he might say.”
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George R. R. Martin
Source : George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam
#Liars
#Men
#Interesting
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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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George R. R. Martin
#Fear
#Wind
#Snow
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“O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.”
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George R. R. Martin
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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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George R. R. Martin
#Book
#Mind
#Needs
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..”
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George R. R. Martin
#Fantasy
#Reader
#Thousand
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“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Sunset
#Sun
#Candle
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“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Truth
#People
#Taste
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“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Pain
#Broken
#Heal
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“People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Book
#Games
#People
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“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Heaven
#Earth
#Fantasy
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“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Friendship
#Summer
#Grandmother
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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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George R. R. Martin
#War
#Men
#Battle
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“Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Summer
#Winter
#Share
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“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Success
#Bruises
#Lessons
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“Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Book
#Healing
#Sleep
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“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Hero
#Forgotten
#Worst
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“The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Wall
#Real
#Lying
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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 other side?”
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George R. R. Martin
#Wall
#Men
#Curiosity
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“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Writing
#Fabulous
#Inspired
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“I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Hate
#Book
#Character
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“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”
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George R. R. Martin
#Sister
#Heart
#Moon
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“I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Book
#Writing
#Ideas
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“I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Writing
#Stories
#Want
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“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Heart
#Broken
#Spots
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“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Needs
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“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Sleep
#Night
#Giving
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“When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Speak
#Morrow
#Certain
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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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George R. R. Martin
#Inspirational
#Fear
#Father
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“The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.”
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George R. R. Martin
#Enemy
#Unseen
