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"Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the longnight, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little childrenare born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt andhungry, and the white walkers move through the woods."
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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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"The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost."
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"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
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"The doctor of the future will be oneself."
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"Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places."
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"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."
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"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."
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"How you feel about marrying me?' he asked in my ear."
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"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."
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"You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."
Identity
"There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories."
Freedom
"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.You must remember this."
Storytelling
"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."
Writing
"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."
Writing
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof."
Work
"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
Rules
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel."
Love
"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly."
Trust
"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."
Nation
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