“Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“-Te llamaré Sospecha... tus compañeros de camada serán Duda, Hostilidad, Ingratitud y Estupidez.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“I wait with sullen resignation,” said Tuf, unmoving.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Se comete un gran error creyendo que los seres humanos son capaces de alcanzar tarde o temprano los límites de su satisfacción.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“It fits,” said Tolly Mune. “Sometimes I feel this ship is haunted.” “This suggests why it is wiser to rely upon intellect rather than feelings, Portmaster.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“No sooner had the Flowering taken root, so to speak, than your people rushed back to their private chambers, unleashed their carnal lusts and parental urges, and began reproducing faster than ever. Mean family size is greater now than five years ago, by .0072 persons, and your average citizen becomes a parent sooner by .0102 years.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Weight, sir, is entirely a function of gravity, and is therefore most malleable. Moreover, I am unwilling to concede you the authority to judge my weight over, under, or just right, these being subjective criteria. Aesthetics vary from world to world, as do genotypes and hereditary predisposition. I am quite satisfied with my present mass, sir.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“If," said Haviland Tuf. "A most difficult word. So short, and so often fraught with disappointment and frustration.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Such are the vicissitudes of life," Tuf said, "that each of us must sometimes accept that which he does not like.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
George R.R. Martin
Born place: in Bayonne, New Jersey, The United States
Born date September 20, 1948
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“You're really going to do it, aren't you? You're really going to go back to war?" Gregor said. He could feel something boiling up inside of him. "So, we'll just forget about what happened. The jungle, the Firelands, the Bane." His voice was rising and he could feel the rager side of him taking over. "Forget about everybody who's dead! Tick and Twitchtip and Hamnet and Thalia and Ares! And your parents, Luxa! And your pups, Ripred! Let's just forget about everybody who gave their lives so that you could have this moment where you could — could make things right again! So you could stop the killing! We were fighting for the same thing, remember? You two owe each other your lives! You owe me your lives! And now you stand there and ask me to choose between you? To help you kill each other?" Gregor yanked Sandwich's sword from his belt and swung it so violently that even Luxa and Ripred stepped back. "Well, guess what? The warrior's not fighting for either of you!”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Code of Claw
“I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“I'm going to be a star some day," she announced as though daring him to contradict her.
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"It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want."
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"If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.”
― Nathanael West, quote from The Day of the Locust
“ MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
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