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David Benioff is an American screenwriter, television producer and writer, and novelist. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones.

✵ 25. September 1970
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City of Thieves
City of Thieves
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City of Thieves
City of Thieves
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Famous David Benioff Quotes

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

David Benioff Quotes

“There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.”

David Benioff

Source: When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“You're a writer. Make it up.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye…”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

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