"Some men want whores on the eve of……" — George R. R. Martin
"Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward."
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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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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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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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