Joe Abercrombie Quotes

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Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Joe Abercrombie

Tasks

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.7, Hachette UK

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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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Mistake, Teaching, Learning

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Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

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Disappointment, Misery, Life Is

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.436, Hachette UK

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That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

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Courage, Disappointment, Past

Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.1336, Hachette UK

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Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

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Lunch, Joy, Breakfast

Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.388, Hachette UK

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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

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Laughing, Moments, Should

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.214, Hachette UK

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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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Mean, Men, Rallying Cry

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Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

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Strange, Moments, Our Lives

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Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

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Children, War, Lawyer

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.490, Hachette UK

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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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Lying, Irrelevance, People

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK

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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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Dream, Military, Congratulations

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The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

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Wise, Men, Watches

Joe Abercrombie (2014). “Half a King”, p.90, Del Rey

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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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Things In Life, Hot, Baths

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.71, Hachette UK

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The truth is like salt. Men want to taste
a little, but too much makes everyone
sick.

Joe Abercrombie

Men, Sick, Want

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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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Eye, Forget, Easy

Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.108, Hachette UK

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Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

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Believe, Fighting, Men

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Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

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Luck, Deserve

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.192, Hachette UK

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If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

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People, Taught, Villain

Joe Abercrombie (2016). “The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War”, p.272, Del Rey

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Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

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Mind, Possibility, States

Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK

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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

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Pain, Steel, Pity

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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?

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Men, People, Want

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Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

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Life, Wise, Travel

Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.30, Hachette UK

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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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Opportunity, Men, Change For The Better

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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.

Joe Abercrombie

Believe, Shadow, Glory

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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.

Joe Abercrombie

Men, Rings

Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.211, Hachette UK

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