You know what circumcision is, Private?
BERNARD CORNWELLIf 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.
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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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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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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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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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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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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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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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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.
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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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I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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