Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
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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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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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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Television is a young person’s medium.
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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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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’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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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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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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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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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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