No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.


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You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by p...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
You have to realistic about these things.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now ...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE
I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and s...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase tha...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, n...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE
We are ready to begin fulfilling these orders as soon as we get a ... contract.
GEORGE ABERCROMBIE
I never thought this would happen to my kid. He still doesn't think he has a problem. He doesn't bel...
JANET ABERCROMBIE
When my son, William, was 7, I caught him sniffing gasoline. He was getting pretty high on it, so I ...
JANET ABERCROMBIE
The kid (catcher) had him blocked off at the plate and he went to the outside and was able to sneak ...
JASON ABERCROMBIE
The kids are playing with a lot of confidence right now. They are hitting the ball at a good time an...
JASON ABERCROMBIE
That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Then, once he had eaten, he would ask the spirits for guidance. Their guidance was pretty useless, b...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of.
The Bloody-Nine...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crim...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond s...
JOE ABERCROMBIE