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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.

Bernard Cornwell

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
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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Book Firsts Sold Suppose Thinking
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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Carefully Frightened God Lost Magic Room Understand
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.
BERNARD CORNWELL

Death Jest Justice Laughing Life
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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Amass Army Children Feasts Land
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Book Far Years
This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood Bone Land Our Strengthened
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
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
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Men Pass Regret Women
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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Change Cruel Nailed Truth Warrior
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
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.
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Alone Company Happiness Leave Lost Miss Soul
Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
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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Eye Heard Heart Impossible Voice
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable

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