Joe Abercrombie Quotes

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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.
• Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
• Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
• Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
• Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
• Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth,…
• Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
• 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…
• Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now,…
• You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
• There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and…
• It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be…
• But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
• 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.…
• Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
• Those with the least always lose the most in war.
• People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe.…
• Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
• You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have…

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