Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Writing is a solitary occupation.
2354 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.
3385 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.
3374 There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.
1272 We all suffer from dreams
4159 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.
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