"Some gave me soft words and some blunt,……" — George R. R. Martin
"Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind."
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about.…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution…
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More Blunt Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which…
— Max Beerbohm
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
— Tupac Shakur
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Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
— Katt Williams
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
— Eric Hoffer
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
— Gregory Bateson
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
— William Shakespeare
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the…
— Astley Cooper
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally…
— Alan Dershowitz
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide…
— Unknown Author
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