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Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Joe Abercrombie

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Joe Abercrombie
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 31
Film Editor
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Joseph Edward Abercrombie
Mind
Armour
Admit
Possibility
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The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
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I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
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Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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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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There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
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Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
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The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
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But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
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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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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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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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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
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People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
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History is littered with dead good men
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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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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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Hard words are for fools and cowards.
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Those with the least always lose the most in war.
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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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