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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
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Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
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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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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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History is littered with dead good men
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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.
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Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
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The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
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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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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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It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
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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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