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TIL : When Game of Thrones was criticized for its sexual violence GRRM’s reply was : “the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords,but from ourselves.We are the monsters.(And the heroes too).Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.”

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