George R. R. Martin quotes - page 2

When the snow fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. (George R. R. Martin)
I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant. View quote
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I'm not an "American First" (and maybe because I read science fiction) I'm a "Terran First". I'm a human being first. And I have this sympathy for other human beings no matter what side of the giant ice wall they happen to be born on. View quote
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Been on the river thirty years, York. Rafted down to New Orleans when I was just a boy, and worked flatboats and keelboats both before steamers. I been a pilot and a mate and a striker, even a mud clerk. Been everything there is to be in this business, but one thing I never been, and that's a sharper. View quote
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Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me. View quote
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It doesn't seem to matter what gods you pray to. We all die, in the real world and in fantasy worlds, and if there was some religion where you did not die I suspect that would be, that god would become very popular. View quote
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He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang. He was a storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen. View quote
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. View quote
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Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. View quote
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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. View quote
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Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. (George R. R. Martin)
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. View quote
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You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. View quote
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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. View quote
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Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. View quote
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The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes. View quote
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Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. View quote
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The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth. View quote
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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? View quote
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Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt. View quote
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. (George R. R. Martin)
If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn. View quote
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Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves. View quote
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Kings are falling like leaves this autumn. View quote
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A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. View quote
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