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.
BERNARD CORNWELLWhat 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.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Television is a young person’s medium.
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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