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Death haunts everyone and never fails.

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
Everyone
Death
Never
Haunts
Fails
Failing

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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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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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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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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 was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
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You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.
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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
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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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