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James Clavell nascido Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell , foi um autor e diretor de cinema britânico.

✵ 10. Outubro 1921 – 7. Setembro 1994  •  Outros nomes 詹姆士．克萊威爾
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James Clavell frases e citações

“Somente vivendo à beira da morte você pode entender a indescritível alegria da vida.”

James Clavell

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
Do livro Shōgun (1975) - capítulo 56.

“O que são nuvens, salvo uma desculpa para o céu? O que é vida, salvo uma fuga da morte.”

James Clavell

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death.
Do livro Shōgun (1975) - capítulo 43.

James Clavell: Frases em inglês

“We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.”

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James Clavell livro Shōgun

Fonte: Shōgun

“You must be patient before you criticize.”

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James Clavell livro Shōgun

Shogun, Part 1

“Your daddy had to go back to school a little. He had some strange thoughts — and he wanted other grown-ups to believe them. It's not right for others to believe wrong thoughts, is it?”

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher" to Johnny
The Children's Story (1982)

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

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James Clavell

André Delambre
The Fly (1958)

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

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

Child
The Children's Story (1982)

“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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James Clavell

On his experience as a POW in Changi Prison on Singapore, which became the subject of his novel King Rat
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)

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

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André Delambre
The Fly (1958)

“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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James Clavell livro Noble House

Noble House (1981)

“I'm going to pray to our leader every time!”

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

Child
The Children's Story (1982)

“All his life he had heard legends told among pilots and sailormen about the incredible riches of Portugal's secret empire in the East, how they had by now converted the heathens to Catholicism and so held them in bondage, where gold was as cheap as pig iron, and emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and sapphires as plentiful as pebbles on a beach.
If the Catholic part's true, he told himself, perhaps the rest is too.”

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James Clavell livro Shōgun

Fonte: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 1

“First she studied her husband's flower arrangement. He had chosen the blossom of a single white wild rose and put a single pearl of water on the green leaf, and set it on red stones. Autumn is coming, he was suggesting with the flower, talking through the flower, do not weep for the time of fall, the time of dying when the earth begins to sleep; enjoy the time of beginning again and experience the glorious cool of the autumn air on this summer evening…soon the tear will vanish and the rose, only the stones will remain — soon you and I will vanish and only the stones will remain.”

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James Clavell livro Shōgun

Fonte: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 43

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

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

Child
The Children's Story (1982)

“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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James Clavell livro Whirlwind

Whirlwind (1986)

“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.”

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François Delambre (Vincent Price) to André's son, Philippe.
The Fly (1958)

“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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Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)

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

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)

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

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher" (played by Jame's Clavell's daughter Michaela Clavell, credited as Michaela Ross).
The Children's Story (1982)

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

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher" leading the class in prayer.
The Children's Story (1982)

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

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James Clavell livro King Rat

Part 1, Ch. 1, Lt. Grey, First line of the story.
King Rat (1962)

“Of course wars are fought by teenagers — you realize that — they really ought to be fought by the politicians and the old people who start these wars.”

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Interview with Don Swaim (1986)

“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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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)

“To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline — training — is about.”

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James Clavell livro Shōgun

Fonte: Shōgun (1975), Ch. 5

“I put the candy on the desk. So you know, it doesn't matter who you shut your eyes and pray to — to God, or anyone, even our leader — no one will ever give you anything. Only another human being … only I, or someone like me, can give you things. Praying to God or anyone for something is a waste of time.”

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James Clavell livro The Children's Story

"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)

“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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James Clavell livro King Rat

Part 1, Ch. 1
King Rat (1962)

“Help! Help me! Please help me! Help me!”

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James Clavell

The human-headed fly, as the spider approaches it.
The Fly (1958)