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Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

Joe Abercrombie

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Joe Abercrombie
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 31
Film Editor
Science Fiction Writer
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Joseph Edward Abercrombie
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One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.
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'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
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Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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Hard words are for fools and cowards.
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Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
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What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
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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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You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.
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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
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The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
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Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
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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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The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
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It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
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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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If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
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Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.
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If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
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