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.
BERNARD CORNWELLBecause there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Television is a young person’s medium.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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