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born 1943 United States

Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

United States
Non-fiction authors
Novelists
Screenwriters

Also known as: Gates of Fire

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You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Gates of Fire (1998)

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

The War of Art (2002)

Both men were aware of the imperative held by all warrior races to serve honor before survival.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!

Gates of Fire (1998)

I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.

Gates of Fire (1998)

Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

Gates of Fire (1998)

A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and the chiseled squint of the vetern.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

Gates of Fire (1998)

I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon

Gates of Fire (1998)

Give them this: they were tough. Tougher than the Scyths and Getai, for all their savage valor, and tougher than the Amazons, despite their dash and dazzle.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

Bear your command with humility. Lead, do not condescend. Remember, these are great events and men will rise to them. Treat every man as a Soldier. He may surprise you and be one.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

The War of Art (2002)

In the end the American dream boils down to what? I'm getting mine and to hell with you.

The Profession (2011)

At Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

"You cannot defend the indefensible!"

Last of the Amazons (2002)

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The War of Art (2002)

I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.

The Profession (2011)

One act I will never stand for is leaving our fellows behind. Bugger military protocol, or lofty notions of honour. I can't live with running out on a pal, and I won't let any of you do it either.

Killing Rommel (2008)

Humankind is commanded to ascend from savagery. This is God's mandate, which cries out from the epicenter of our being: the imperative to mount from the base to the noble, from the savage to the civil, from beast to human.

Last of the Amazons (2002)

I could be counted upon to perform the mission they had assigned me, or, if that was unworkable, to improvise and turn my men's exertions upon a secondary undertaking as good as or better than the first.

Killing Rommel (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Pressfield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.