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Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger
Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.
Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.
Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?” Ghastek asked. “Nope, I’m just here to look pretty.
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.