Joe Abercrombie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?”
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“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else”
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“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.”
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“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
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“Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.”
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“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”
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“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
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“As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.”
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“Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.”
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“Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”
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“I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.”
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“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.”
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“I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.”
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“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
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“I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
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“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
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“But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.”
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“Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.”
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“Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.”
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“Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.”
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“Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.”
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“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
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“Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?”
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“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
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“More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”
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“Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.”
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“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”
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“You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.”
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“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
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“Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.”
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