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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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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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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You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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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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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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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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Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
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... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
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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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In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.
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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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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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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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Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
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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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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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