David Gemmell quotes - page 7

How do you do it? How do you stay so strong?" "I fake it. (David Gemmell)
I count myself among them - are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
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Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
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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 thank black, and silver tarnishes.
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I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.
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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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Blood always aids blood, my friend.
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No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
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Battle is intoxicating. That is why the ghastly vileness of war has always been so popular. (David Gemmell)
We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not.
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It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost.
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They will try to make us believe that the only way to destroy them is to become like them.
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Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value.
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How do you know? You do not! You listened to the voice of your inadequacy, and because you believed, you are in my power.
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There is only one way to survive in war, and that is by being willing to die.
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Self-preservation is a paramount desire in all of us.
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Winners made him sick with their arrogance, losers made him sick with their whining, and fighters made him sick with their stupidity.
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This enterprise was doomed, but we do what we can and do what we must. So a young farmer with wife and children decides to go home. Good! He shows a sense that you and I will never understand.
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We are closest to life when we are vying with death. (David Gemmell)
That is why men follow you, though they hate your blood. They trust you.
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Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win.
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What truly makes a man who he is? Is it the strength of his arms, or the courage of his soul?
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One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms.
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