Bernard Cornwell - What I mean by that is that...

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

British Novelist

Born: Feb 23, 1944

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