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.
BERNARD CORNWELLTelevision is a young person’s medium.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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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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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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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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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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You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Television is a young person’s medium.
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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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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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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