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James Clavell _ Shōgun
a man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show his very special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except himself alone,
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James Clavell _ Shōgun
A new era requires clear thinking about the meaning of honor.
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James Clavell _ Noble House
I even heard that part of a very large government loan to South Vietnam was expended on a nonexistent airfield that's still impenetrable jungle.
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James Clavell _ Shōgun
It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.
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James Clavell _ Shōgun
For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, ?
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James Clavell _ Shōgun
Time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even a rock.
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James Clavell _ Shōgun
They're devils who pretend to serve the Church and Christ, but they serve only themselves. They lust for power, power at any cost. They hide behind a net of poverty and piousness, but underneath, they feed like kings and amass fortunes."
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James Clavell _ Noble House
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 _ Noble House
Do I want to bed her? Sure. So mount a campaign, maneuver her into bed without commitments. Don't play the game of life according to female rules, all's fair in war and war. What's love anyway? It's like Casey said, sex's only a part of it.
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James Clavell _ Noble House
no man ever willingly marries his mistress.
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James Clavell _ Noble House
they set out to acquire-steal-our industrial secrets. "Curiously our free-world media fail dismally to point out that all Soviet advances are based originally on one of our stolen inventions or techniques, that without our grain they starve, and without our vast and ever-growing financial assistance and credits to buy our grains and technology they cannot fuel and refuel their whole military-industrial infrastructure which keeps their empire and people enthralled.
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James Clavell _ Noble House
Without terror how can the few rule the many?
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