"A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination……" — David Gemmell
"A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity."
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64 Quotes by David Gemmell
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above…
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I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.
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You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the…
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff…
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One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such…
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks…
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If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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More Cynic Quotes
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
— Glenn Beck
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real…
— Kristen Bell
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
— Joyce Brothers
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
— Irving Layton
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and…
— James Gould Cozzens
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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