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"The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

"Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated."

"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."

"Confronting a liar makes a better liar."
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"The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all."

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

"So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have."

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."

"No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul."

"Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves."

"Are you certain they never cut your member off?" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. "Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it."
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