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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.

Bernard Cornwell

I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them.
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Eye Heard Heart Impossible Voice
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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Friendship Kings Queens Writing
Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
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Alone Company Happiness Leave Lost Miss Soul
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Easier Occupation
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
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Amass Army Children Feasts Land
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
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Cheerleader Drama Obstacle Procedure
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold… doesn’t bear thinking about, but I suppose we’d have made it work somehow.
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Book Firsts Sold Suppose Thinking
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Build Destroy Son
This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood Bone Land Our Strengthened
But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.
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Dark Order Powerful
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Men Pass Regret Women
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
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Men Pride Reputation Wall
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
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Fool Love Regret Savage Song Start
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable
You’ll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things.
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Children Christian Grow Up
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Book Far Years

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