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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.

Bernard Cornwell

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
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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Love Men Thinking Wanted Wrenches
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
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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Death Jest Justice Laughing Life
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets.
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Hands Regret Winning
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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Achieve Funny Inspirational Ocean
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
Television is a young person’s medium.
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Mediums Person Television Young
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
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
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Fate Ful Inexorable
I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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Book Clear Happily Married
Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation Solitary Writing
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
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
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Fool Love Regret Savage Song Start
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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Friendship Kings Queens Writing

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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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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