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I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Bernard Cornwell

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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
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Pass
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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Winning
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 Procedure
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Ful Inexorable
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
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows
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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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Achieve
And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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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 discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.
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Lust Such Voyage
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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Jest Laughing
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Years

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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