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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

— George R. R. Martin

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Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love.

Meathouse Man (1976)

The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.

Fire & Blood (2018)

What boy does not wish to find secret powers hidden in himself?

A Clash of Kings (1998)

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