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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

David Gemmell

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
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London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
Mistake
Everyone
Makes
Something
Fails
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Failing

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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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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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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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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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Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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