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1948–2006 England
David Andrew Gemmell (1 August 1948 – 28 July 2006) was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984.
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Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.
Fear is like a fire in your belly. Controlled, it warms you and keeps you alive. Uncontrolled, it burns and destroys you.
Constantly at war, the tribesmen fought one another with pitiless ferocity, and only the very strong survived to manhood.
How do you know? You do not! You listened to the voice of your inadequacy, and because you believed, you are in my power.
We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more than black, and silver tarnishes.
It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.
Death haunts everyone and never fails.
While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
This bow I held had killed many men, and it had power, dread power, in its ebony stock.
The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are.
We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not.
No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.
I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.
Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.
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