James Clavell
James Clavell
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was an Australian-born Britishnovelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escapeand To Sir, with Love...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 October 1924
CountryAustralia
decision bullets right-time
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!
sorry apology second-chance
What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.
stupid emotion stranger
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.
atheist atheism firsts
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
laughter humans
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
giving wonder wonder-of-nature
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
home night men
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.
stupid men brave
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?
horse men treachery
Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
men enemy important
It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
sky clouds excuse
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
moon fire dragons
Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.
real important titles
Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
alive christ
Christ, it's so good to be alive.