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You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Bernard Cornwell

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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Beget Children Lesson Mercy Son Tragically
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
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
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows Private
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. 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 Land Tribe War Winning
Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
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
Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation Solitary Writing
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
Then 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.
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Attention Book Proof Thinking Writing
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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Mentor Mentoring Want
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
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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Men Pride Reputation Wall
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Battle Enemy Men Watching
Television is a young person’s medium.
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Mediums Person Television Young
This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood Bone Land Our Strengthened

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