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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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Weaknesses
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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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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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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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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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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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A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
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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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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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Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
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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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A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
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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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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
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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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Hate is the father of all evil.
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