Top 160 James Clavell Quotes (2024 Update)
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James Clavell Quote: “Yesterday, because of Mrs. Struan’s letter to him, he had been confronted with an immortal truth: however loyal you are to a company, however much service you give “the company,” the company can and will spit you out at its whim, without conscience.”

151. “Yesterday, because of Mrs. Struan’s letter to him, he had been confronted with an immortal truth: however loyal you are to a company, however much service you give “the company,” the company can and will spit you out at its whim, without conscience.”

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James Clavell Quote: “Oh, yes. Every year in this Land of the Gods we have earth tremors. And fires and flood and Great Waves, and the monster storms – the tai-funs. Nature is very strong with us.’ Tears gathered at the corners of her eyes. ‘Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.”

152. “Oh, yes. Every year in this Land of the Gods we have earth tremors. And fires and flood and Great Waves, and the monster storms – the tai-funs. Nature is very strong with us.’ Tears gathered at the corners of her eyes. ‘Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.”

— James Clavell

James Clavell Quote: “No honor. No cojones. Except to burn innocents in the name of God.”

153. “No honor. No cojones. Except to burn innocents in the name of God.”

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James Clavell Quote: “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? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?”

154. “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? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?”

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James Clavell Quote: “It’s a hard life for a woman, Felicity,” he had said before. And she had said, “Any life is hard for a woman.”

155. “It’s a hard life for a woman, Felicity,” he had said before. And she had said, “Any life is hard for a woman.”

— James Clavell

James Clavell Quote: “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness.”

156. “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness.”

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James Clavell Quote: “It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain.”

157. “It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain.”

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James Clavell Quote: “You must be patient before you criticize.”

158. “You must be patient before you criticize.”

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James Clavell Quote: “It’s vast to be alive,” he said happily. “I can almost hear the rain waiting to be born.”

159. “It’s vast to be alive,” he said happily. “I can almost hear the rain waiting to be born.”

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James Clavell Quote: “After all those horrors at Changi, you don’t detest them?” After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. “I don’t detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I’m alive.”

160. “After all those horrors at Changi, you don’t detest them?” After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. “I don’t detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I’m alive.”

— James Clavell

James Clavell Quote: “But if I am to go, I am to go, and there’s the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem.”

161. “But if I am to go, I am to go, and there’s the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem.”

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James Clavell Quote: “I really don’t understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We’re openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.”

162. “I really don’t understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We’re openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.”

— James Clavell

James Clavell Quote: “Wildcat strikes are the way of the future. With wildcats we can get around union hierarchies without disrupting existing unionism. Our unions’re fragmented. Deliberately. Fifty men can be a separate union and that union can dominate thousands – and so long as there’s never a secret ballot, the few will always rule the many!”

163. “Wildcat strikes are the way of the future. With wildcats we can get around union hierarchies without disrupting existing unionism. Our unions’re fragmented. Deliberately. Fifty men can be a separate union and that union can dominate thousands – and so long as there’s never a secret ballot, the few will always rule the many!”

— James Clavell

James Clavell Quote: “Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.”

164. “Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.”

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James Clavell Quote: “I’d say we’re in the sewer, up to our chins, and the tide’s coming in fast.”

165. “I’d say we’re in the sewer, up to our chins, and the tide’s coming in fast.”

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James Clavell Quote: “Poor God,” Blackthorne said. “The stupidities He gets blamed for!”

166. “Poor God,” Blackthorne said. “The stupidities He gets blamed for!”

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James Clavell Quote: “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?”

167. “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?”

— James Clavell

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