"You've committed murder just as much as Hélène……" — James Clavell
"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. If she murdered so did you."
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James Clavell
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31 Quotes by James Clavell
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It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
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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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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 it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome…
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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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