# Quote — James Clavell, Noble House

> "Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death — we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We are a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece."
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> What did you see?"
>
> "A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine. … What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at."

- Author: [James Clavell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-clavell.md)
- Book: [Noble House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-clavell/noble-house.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Clavell#Noble_House_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-clavell/noble-house/changi-changed-everyone

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