David Mitchell Quotes - Page 10

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• I can write pretty much anywhere.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, I Can

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• Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Persons

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286, 2004.

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• Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

  David Mitchell

  War, Mean, Humanity

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

  David Mitchell

  Hands, Ideas, Smell

  Interview with Steve Finbow, www.stopsmilingonline.com. June 29, 2007.

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• Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

  David Mitchell

  Technology, Soldier, Quality

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.266, Random House

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• Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

  David Mitchell

  Law, Each Month, Hoarding

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 237, 2004.

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• Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

  David Mitchell

  Winning, Stuff, Dies

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.205, Random House

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• Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Grief, Men

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• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  David Mitchell

  Race, Humanity, Groups

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• . . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Night, Unpredictable

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• Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

  David Mitchell

  War, Views, Long

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

  David Mitchell

  Liars, Games, Cards

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.213, Random House Group

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• I'm not a great deep political thinker.

  David Mitchell

  Political, Thinker

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• I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, Parent, Savages

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• I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

  David Mitchell

  Novelists, Novel, Livelihood

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• For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

  David Mitchell

  Men, White Man, Sea

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• The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

  David Mitchell

  Eye, Her Eyes, Through My Eyes

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.54, Vintage

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• The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

  David Mitchell

  Debt, Way, Wealth

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• Time is the speed at which the past decays.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Decay, Speed

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.235, Random House

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• When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

  David Mitchell

  Book, Thinking, People

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• When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

  David Mitchell

  London, Pavement, Rooms

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.

  David Mitchell

  Rain, Roof, Streets

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• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

  David Mitchell

  Earth, Clubs, Exclusive

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.80, Random House Group

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• Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

  David Mitchell

  Hunger, Humans

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• …and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

  David Mitchell

  Ocean, Blue, Sky

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.336, Hachette UK

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