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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
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You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?
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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
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I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.
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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
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If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
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When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.
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something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.
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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
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When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
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I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
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In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
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Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
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Few things worth having can be got easily.
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