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“A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and chiseled squint of the veteran. Even his submissions to terror, the very shit with which he paints his thighs under fire is trophy to him; he points it out to his comrades, laughing in the aftercourse of action as if it were a decoration for valour, for it makes him a salt, a veteran, an old hand.”
― Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons

“Never abandon as hopeless something you've never tried.”
― David Dalglish, A Dance of Cloaks

“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you hard.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons