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I span the entire geek spectrum.
Hard words are for fools and cowards.
History is littered with dead good men
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
Those with the least always lose the most in war.
The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.
Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.
It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.
Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
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.
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.
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
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
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.
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?
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
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.
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.
Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.
If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
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.
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.
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?
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.
I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.