Quotes by James Clavell

James Clavell

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

Destruction

Enemy

Planning

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they’re any good, the ending is a beginning.

Ifs

Middle

Stories

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. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

Kings

Luck

Together

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

Emotion

Stranger

Stupid

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

Faces

Should

Stranger

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 night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

Home

Men

Night

Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life – the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

Art

Experts

Inmates

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.

Alive

Events

Wise

Christ, it’s so good to be alive.

Alive

Christ

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Atheism

Atheist

Firsts

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Alive

Apology

Art

Atheism

Atheist

Beautiful

Believe

Blessed

Book

Brave

Bullets

Christ

Christian

Clever

Clouds

Committed

Decision

Destruction

Dignity

Discipline

Doe

Dragons

Effort

Emotion

Enemy

Eternal

Events

Excuse

Experts

Faces

Fear

Fire

Firsts

Fleeting

Giving

Grief

Hate

Heart

Helping

Home

Horse

Humans

Husband

Ifs

Important

Indescribable

Inmates

Interesting

Joy

Karma

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Quotes by James Clavell

James Clavell

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

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they’re any good, the ending is a beginning.

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. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life – the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

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.

Christ, it’s so good to be alive.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

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