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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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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
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London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
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People
Weaknesses
Weakness
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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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Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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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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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.
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Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.
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In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
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A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.
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Hold on to your dreams, Kiall. They are more important than you realise.
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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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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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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
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How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
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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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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
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None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
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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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