"The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye..."

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David Benioff

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“The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.”

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“There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Passage to Dawn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.168, Wizards of the Coast
“I have too many ideas for a lifetime.”
“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”
“When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.”
“I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.”
“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
“When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.”

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