A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
BERNARD CORNWELLI do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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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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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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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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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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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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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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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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