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.
BERNARD CORNWELLThen you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you’re writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Television is a young person’s medium.
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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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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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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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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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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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I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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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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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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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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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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