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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
Experience
Cynic
Inclination
Necessity
Romantic
Hero

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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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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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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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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
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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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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.
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All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.
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There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.
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None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
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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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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.
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The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
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