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An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.

The most grotesque doctrines can look like common sense when embedded in a compelling narrative,

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Ultimately the air Is bare sunlight where must be found The lyric valuable.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Libertarianism, like Marxism, is a complete explanatory system. It appeals to super-smart engineers and others who never really grow up.

I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear

The wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.

The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.

I seldom fling children off the tops of towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

George R.R. Martin

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that's true, Lord Eddard, tell me… why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Are you a maid, Penny?" She blushed. "Yes. Of course. Who would have –" "Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust is poison.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.