You know what circumcision is, Private?
BERNARD CORNWELLThis is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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.
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I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
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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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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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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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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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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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