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 CORNWELLEven 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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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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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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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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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You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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