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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
Everyone
Makes
Something
Fails
Mistakes
Failing
Mistake

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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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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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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?
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