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David Andrew Gemmell fue un escritor británico de fantasía y novela histórica.

✵ 1. agosto 1948 – 28. julio 2006
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David Gemmell: Frases en inglés

“It is a rare man who notices a handsome woman.”

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David Gemmell libro The King Beyond the Gate

Fuente: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22

“I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 4

“… No, I should have died at Bel-Azzar. Nothing has gone right since then.' 'Death comes soon enough to all men. Don't wish for it.”

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David Gemmell libro Quest for Lost Heroes

Fuente: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 1

“[H]e who fears to lose will never win.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 17

“It's a funny thing about weaknesses…. Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

... that's what innkeepers are for.
Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 1

“I do not mock men who have faith. It goves them comfort, and oft times leads them to help others. Yet I have also seen great evils done in the name of the Source. And never have I witnessed a miracle. Until I do I shall remain sceptical.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2

“Constantly at war, the tribesmen fought one another with pitiless ferocity, and only the very strong survived to manhood.”

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David Gemmell libro Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf

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Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf

“A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 1

“Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze — a poor man would I be if I could not.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 31

“Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' ‘ Life is a mystery,’ said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 8

“Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Rigante series, Stormrider

“Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 24

“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”

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David Gemmell libro The King Beyond the Gate

Fuente: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 12

“A problem shared is a problem doubled.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 1

“When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7

“Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.”

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David Gemmell libro The King Beyond the Gate

Fuente: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 2

“I don't pray, Master Ring. I act.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 8

“Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 5

“Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7

“I'm not laughing at you. […] I'm laughing at the whole stupid business. We face the biggest threat in our history and they give me a helmet too big, and you a helmet too small, and tell us we can't exchange them. It's too much. Really.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 9

“A man must know his limitations.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10

“Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.”

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David Gemmell libro The King Beyond the Gate

Fuente: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 23

“In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 22

“"Well lad, this is what you have chosen. Are you pleased with yourself?"
“ I am alive," said Bane.
“ And eight men are dead," said Landis. “ Eight souls cast out of the world. More mothers to grieve, more children to know sorrow. Is this a life you want for yourself?”
“ No it is not," Bane told him. “ But we do what we must.”
“ Not true! We do what we choose. And we face the consequences."”

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David Gemmell libro Midnight Falcon

Fuente: Rigante series, Midnight Falcon, Ch. 5

“Plan for the worst, expect the best.”

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David Gemmell libro The Swords of Night and Day

Fuente: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 19

“‘ Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand […]’‘ But then the world does not matter.’‘ Indeed it does not […] It is good to understand that.’”

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David Gemmell libro Quest for Lost Heroes

Fuente: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10

“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 16

“In my experience all women deserve someone better.”

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David Gemmell libro The Swords of Night and Day

Fuente: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 10

“I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom — because that's all dung to a soldier.”

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David Gemmell libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 12

“‘ Is the war coming to Eldacre, my lord?’ asked Ramus, as he settled into the chair.
'I fear it is. A more stupid and wasteful business there never was. Fields will not be planted, food will run low, tax revenues will dry up — save from the makers of swords and munitions.”

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David Gemmell libro Stormrider

Fuente: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 15