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.
BERNARD CORNWELLBut when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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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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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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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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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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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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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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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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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