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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

David Gemmell

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
Writer
London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
Cynic
Inclination
Necessity
Romantic
Hero
Experience

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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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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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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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Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
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I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
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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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I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
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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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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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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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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
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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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Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.
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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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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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