"Heroes are people who face down their fears.……" — David Gemmell

"Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple."

— David Gemmell

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64 Quotes by David Gemmell

David Gemmell has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above…
I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the…
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff…
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such…
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks…
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

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