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"I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?"
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"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."
"For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker."
"Without love and compassion, nothing is sacred."
"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
"The spirit of Christmas is found when we lift the load of others."
"I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God."
"The difficulties of people should be our business."
"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
"Compassion is not a sometime action, it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week... That's first class hypocrisy!"
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"No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet."
"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."
"Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity."
"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."
"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."
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