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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of a trilogy called The First Law and other fantasy books in the same setting. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best Young Adult book.

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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.

Courage, Disappointment, High, Past, Wounds, Yesterday

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.

Believe, Glory, Lid, Part, Pitiful, Shadow

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

Admit, Hit, Mind, Possibility, States

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Choice, Choices, Long, Make, Matter, Stick

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Death, Lives, Lows, Mean, People

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Better Person, Fine, Hate, Love Is, Person

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

Family, Given, Make, Make The Best Of It, Our Family, Pick

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Buried, Mud, Names, Plough, Soil

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.

Irrelevance, Lying, People, Search, Tiresome

All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned. . . just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

Boat, Men, Place, Rivers, Sea

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?

Men, Old, People, Places, Want

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

Brings, Ignorant, Life, Travel, Wise

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Boast, Fool, Fools, Hero, Heroes

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

Breakfast, Joy, Lunch

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

Except, Lives, Moments, Our Lives, Scarcely, Strange

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

Firsts, Hate, Left, Loving, Men

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

Deserve, Drawn, Luck, Woman

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.

Obviously, People, Plan, Quite, Reading, Twists

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Armed, Free, Man, Men, Rings, Sweeter

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.

Clearest, Jobs, Pressure, Theyll, Thinking, War

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