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Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.

Bernard Cornwell

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Jest Laughing

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Jest Laughing
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Son
I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
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Mentor Mentoring
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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Firsts Sold
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Watching
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Years
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life… Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted.
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Wanted Wrenches
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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Christian Grow Up
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you’re writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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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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Leave Miss
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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Winning
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
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Pass
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Vacation
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

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Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
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Awkward Latin
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Imply Trick

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.

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