James Clavell Quotes

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• It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
• Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
• How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same…
• Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that…
• God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
• The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
• All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
• Christ, it's so good to be alive.
• You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a human with a fly head.…
• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive…
• The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
• Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste…
• Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
• And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger.…
• To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever…
• Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your…
• There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer
• Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
• .., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
• Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

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