"Not all men were meant to dance with dragons."

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George R. R. Martin

#Men Quotes #Dragons Quotes

“Besides, do you think you would have come if Iâ€™d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, â€˜Hello, Iâ€™m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?”
“God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.”
“I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.”
“Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.”
“Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.”
“The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.”
“It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
“The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.”

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