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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.

Bernard Cornwell

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Battle Enemy Men Watching
This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood Bone Land Our Strengthened
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows Private
Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
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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Dark Order Powerful
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Build Destroy Son
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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Change Land War Winning
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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Destination Love Lust Men Such Voyage
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Easier Occupation
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Book Far Years
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Book Thinking Travel Vacation
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
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Awkward God Heaven Latin Suppose
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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Beget Children Lesson Mercy Son Tragically
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Absence Imply Magic Trick
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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Children Christian Grow Up

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