"How many hopes and dreams are trapped within……" — David Gemmell
"How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors."
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David Gemmell
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64 Quotes by David Gemmell
David Gemmell has 64 quotes on this site.
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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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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
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