James Clavell Short Quotes

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Just a moment, children — what does "pledge" mean?

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I'm going to work hard not to have any wrong thoughts!

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I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.

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God bless mommy and daddy, and please can we have some candy.

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Perhaps my mommy should go back to school. Perhaps she should.

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Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

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What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

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The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

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What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

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Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.

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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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How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

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Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?

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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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For Those Who Were There
And Are Not.
For Those Who Were There And Are
For Him. But Most,
For Her.

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By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

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Now the sun touched the horizon and the man reined in his horse tiredly, glad that the time for prayer had come.

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How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable — all at the same time?

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So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

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When you have an enemy it is wise to know his ways. The King knew as much about Grey as any man could know about another.

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Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

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Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

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Your old teacher never explained anything to you? I don't think that was very good. Not to explain. You can always ask me anything. That's what a real teacher should do.

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Changi for me — of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event — was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

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