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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.

Bernard Cornwell

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Happily Married

Television is a young person’s medium.
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Mediums
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Son
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 Savage
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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Christian Grow Up
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Watching
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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Nailed Warrior
And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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Day Every Ordinary Unit
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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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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Awkward Latin
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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Happily Married
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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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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Jest Laughing
Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Arared Ful Inexorable
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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Winning
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Imply Trick

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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