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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.George R.r. Martin
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Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.George R.r. Martin
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This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.George R.r. Martin
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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."" Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?"" How else? Though not till I'm done reading.George R.r. Martin
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The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.George R.r. Martin
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Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.George R.r. Martin
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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.George R.r. Martin
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War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe. They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now, They take the wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water. If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron half helm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the small folk whose land they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad in all steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world. And the man breaks. .George R.r. Martin
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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,George R.r. Martin
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Dreams turn to dust in light of day.George R.r. Martin
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Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.George R.r. Martin
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Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.George R.r. Martin
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.George R.r. Martin
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Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.George R.r. Martin
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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.George R.r. Martin
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There is no shame in loving.George R.r. Martin
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Words are wind.George R.r. Martin
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Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.George R.r. Martin
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Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.George R.r. Martin
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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.George R.r. Martin
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I am the sword in the darkness.George R.r. Martin
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A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.George R.r. Martin
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A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.George R.r. Martin
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Silence is a prince's friend.George R.r. Martin
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An ugly smile. An ugly soul.George R.r. Martin
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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl, ' she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. ‘Girl or boy, we fight our battles, ' he said, ‘but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear. .George R.r. Martin
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My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.George R.r. Martin
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When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.George R.r. Martin
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In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.George R.r. Martin
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Dragons are fire made flesh.George R.r. Martin
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Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.George R.r. Martin
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Dying is not dead.George R.r. Martin
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May the Father judge him justly.George R.r. Martin
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In this world the weak are the victims of the strong.George R.r. Martin
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All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.George R.r. Martin
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Blood calls to blood.George R.r. Martin
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The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.George R.r. Martin
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My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.George R.r. Martin
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The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.George R.r. Martin
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Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- CerseiGeorge R.r. Martin