“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.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“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!”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“There are no buts, my son. True there are degrees of honor — but one man can have only one code. Do what you like. It's your choice. Some things a man must decide for himself. Sometimes you have to adapt to circumstances. But for the love of God 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!”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“Очите им се срещнаха и едно обещание бе дадено, прието и върнато.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“...щом се доверяваш на някого и го наемаш заради ума му, дай му възможност да действа. Иначе защо са ти хора, дето само изпълняват заповеди и си налягат парцалите.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“...докато накрая и те започваха да се заричат: "От утре тръгвам редовно. От утре започвам да се подготвям за онова, което искам да бъда след войната. Няма време за губене. От утре вече тръгвам". Но в Чанги, както навсякъде, съществуваше само днес.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“Ce minunat, ce minunat de simplu e să poți spune că dragostea te aduce aproape de Dumnezeu.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“Без жената мъжът е просто една нелепа шега.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“Ако си лишен от опита на годините, това не означава, че си лишен от разум.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
“Жената е създадена да изкушава. Тя живее с насладата да бъде желана.”
― James Clavell, quote from King Rat
James Clavell
Born place: in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born date October 10, 1924
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“Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner
“Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his first treatise on the rainbow; the young Newton’s most joyous discovery was the composition of white light; Goethe’s great color work, like Newton’s, started with a prism; Schopenhauer, Young, Helmholtz, and Maxwell, in the last century, were all tantalized by the problem of color; and Wittgenstein’s last work was his Remarks on Colour. And yet most of us, most of the time, overlook its great mystery.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
“Certainly the European overlords did little enough to prepare Africa for self-government but Democracy would find it hard in any case to put down roots in a tribalist and patrimonial culture that long before the west invaded Africa had sacralized the personal authority of chieftains and ordained the submission of the rest. What the west would call corruption is regarded through much of Africa as no more than the prerogative of power.”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
“The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“When negative experiences such as having one's house shot at occur in my dad's life he tends to come alive. His confusion lifts. Pieces of life's puzzle fuse into meaning like the continents before that colossal rift. It's entirely logical to him that his house has been shot at and when he's able to spend a minute or two in a world that makes sense he appears almost happy. And when he gets happy he does decisive things like this time he went over to the bulletin board in the kitchen and took down the city bus schedule that we've had up there since Tash left and before the bus depot itself closed down. He put it in the garbage can under the sink. Phew. Done. Goodbye past.
But then I imagined him on a day when shitty things weren't happening and he'd be feeling his usual mystified self and go to the dump and there he would see that little piece of paper with the schedule on it and it would bring him to his knees. Just destroy him for a minute or two and he'd probably pick it up and wipe whatever seagull crap there was on it and straighten it out with the side of his hand and bring it back to the kitchen bulletin board and ARRANGE it on there so you'd know it was the centerpiece of his life.”
― Miriam Toews, quote from A Complicated Kindness
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