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I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
Joe Abercrombie
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Joe Abercrombie
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 31
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Joseph Edward Abercrombie
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Hard words are for fools and cowards.
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Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
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Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
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A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
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