Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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If he had learned one thing as a Soldier it was that any decision, even a bad one, was better than none.
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Sharpe had been turbulent, ambitious, but one day, Hogan supposed, that restlessness would have found satisfaction. Then, curiously, Hogan found himself resenting Sharpe, resenting him because he had been killed and was thus denying his friendship to those who still lived.
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My God, I will not abide plundering, especially by officers. How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
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'It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders.'
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So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
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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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All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
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'The door is locked, Captain.' 'Then I'll break it down.' 'It is a shrine.' 'Then I'll say a prayer of forgiveness after I've knocked it down.'
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'Form them up Sergeant!' 'Aye aye, sir.' 'You're not a bloody sailor, Sergeant. A plain yes will do.' Aye aye, sir.'
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'There are rules, orders, regulations, Sharpe, by which our lives are conducted. If we ignore those rules, burdensome though they may be, then we open the gates to anarchy and tyranny; the very things against which we fight!'
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'You've never heard of Paul Revere?' 'No.' 'Lucky man, Sharpe. He called my father a traitor, and our family called Revere a traitor, and I rather think we lost the argument.'
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'They like the idea of recusing women. ... Everyone hates the bloody army till someone needs rescuing, then we're all bloody heroes and white knights.'
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He had thought the army would pay for the voyage, but the army had refused, saying that Sharpe was accepting an invitation to join the 95th Rifles and if the 95th Rifles refused to pay his passage then damn them, damn their badly colored coats, and damn Sharpe. ... Britain had sent Sharpe to India, and Britain, Sharpe reckoned, should fetch him back.