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David Gemmell Inspirational Quotes (84)

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You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
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It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.
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I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
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It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.
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You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
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Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
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Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
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Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
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Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.
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