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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.

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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
Underestimated
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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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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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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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The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
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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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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
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None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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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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All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.
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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
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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 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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Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
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In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
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If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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