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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.

Joe Abercrombie

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Joe Abercrombie
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 31
Film Editor
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Joseph Edward Abercrombie
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Blades
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Blade

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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.
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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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It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
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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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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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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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Those with the least always lose the most in war.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hard words are for fools and cowards.
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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 truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
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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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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
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