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No one will be alive by the la...

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...

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You are grown so very great no...

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

George Martin 788 quotes

Every man should lose a battle...

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

George Martin 788 quotes

Catelyn wanted to run to him, ...

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm....

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And for the first time in hund...

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

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Perhaps that is the secret. It...

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

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The snow drifted down and down...

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

George Martin 788 quotes

Sometimes the best way to baff...

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

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Once you've accepted your flaw...

Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

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Once she had loved Prince Joff...

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

George Martin 788 quotes

I never finished any of my ear...

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

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The best writing advice I had ...

The best writing advice I had was [in] 'Heinlein's Rules for Writers' by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, 'You must finish what you write,' and that had a big impact on me.

George Martin 788 quotes

I had these cheap alien toys a...

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn't have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

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It was a story called 'The Her...

It was a story called 'The Hero' which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

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It's being ready to accept rej...

It's being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it's like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It's not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

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The way my books are structure...

The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it's getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

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There's part of me that loves ...

There's part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you're trying to drive nails with your shoe.

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I could have written a story a...

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King's Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

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Reading. That was the sport I ...

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

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My dreams are the usual incohe...

My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I'll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you've written 'purple socks'.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....