"Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life"

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Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.

— Charles Dance