“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.”

— David Gemmell , book Legend

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

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British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006

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