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In my experience all women deserve someone better.

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
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Women
Better
Deserve
Experience

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She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.
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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
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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 make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
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