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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.

David Gemmell

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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
Face
Faces
May
Gone

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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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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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In my experience all women deserve someone better.
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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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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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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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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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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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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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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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You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.
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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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I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.
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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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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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