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"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention"

Translations

“I drink and I know things”

George R.R. Martin

“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it”

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws no one can use them against you”

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge”

FEATURED QUOTES

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude”

“Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”

“The only way to truly understand the world is to deeply engage with it”

“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is ...”

“When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“The expert in battle moves the enemy and is not moved by him.”

“To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”