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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
Women
Better
Deserve
Experience
Someone

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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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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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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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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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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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In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
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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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It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
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You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
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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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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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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
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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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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
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The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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