“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?”

—  James Clavell, book The Children's Story

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

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American novelist 1921–1994

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