"There is a darkness in you. In all……" — David Gemmell
"There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do."
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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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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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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the…
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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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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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