“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“For the last time: ‘The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset,… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“The time be gone forever when the like of me’s to suck thy arse ’cause of a poxy title which like as… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before."… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“all the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“The Scots knew that the burning of a cross was a summons to the clan, and to all the kinsmen of all kindred clans:… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
