Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
BERNARD CORNWELLThis is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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.
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If you understand everything,’ I said carefully, ‘then there’s no room left for magic. It’s only when you’re lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that’s why they like us to live in chaos.
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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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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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Research is a lifelong occupation so it’s hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
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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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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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Television is a young person’s medium.
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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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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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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