"Isn’t it only through laughter that we become……" — James Clavell
"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 and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?"
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James Clavell
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31 Quotes by James Clavell
James Clavell has 31 quotes on this site.
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It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
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Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
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How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable…
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Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own…
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
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Christ, it's so good to be alive.
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You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a…
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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change…
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The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
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Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this…
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