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• The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

  David Mitchell

  Humanity, States, Organized

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.66, Random House Group

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• maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

  David Mitchell

  Lying, Meaning Of Life

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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• Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Reading, Impact

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• False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

  David Mitchell

  Arrogance, Modesty, False Modesty

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• Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Beach, Ocean

  "Number9Dream: A Novel".

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• Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

  David Mitchell

  People, Pay, Poor

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.122, Vintage

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• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

  David Mitchell

  War, Law, Kitchen

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• The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

  David Mitchell

  Patterns, Myth

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• 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

  David Mitchell

  Mind, Vowels, Letters

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• It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

  David Mitchell

  Construction, Sentences, Adept

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• Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

  David Mitchell

  Love, Romantic, Two

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• Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's gramophone record. When it ends, the Old One plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.

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  Stars, Fall, School

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.471, Random House

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• Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

  David Mitchell

  Life, Hurt, People

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• Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

  David Mitchell

  People, Coward, Taught

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.44, Vintage

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• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

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• Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

  David Mitchell

  Nice, Watches, Needs

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• Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

  David Mitchell

  Country, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.340, Vintage

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• The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

  David Mitchell

  Past

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Sky, Clouds, Soul

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Believe, Waiting

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• Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

  David Mitchell

  Roaches, Soulless

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• ...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

  David Mitchell

  Missing Someone, House, Coats

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• Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

  David Mitchell

  Answers, Demand, Asks

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.205, Random House Group

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• So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

  David Mitchell

  Real, Loser, Winner

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.229, Random House Group

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• History admits no rules; only outcomes.

  David Mitchell

  Outcomes

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.505, Random House Group

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