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.
BERNARD CORNWELLAnd 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.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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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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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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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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