David Mitchell Quotes - Page 8

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• Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

  David Mitchell

  Regret, Giving, Doe

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• Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

  David Mitchell

  Firsts, Easy, Young

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.268, Random House Group

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• She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

  David Mitchell

  Appreciate, Enough, Source

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.362, Random House

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• An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

  David Mitchell

  Different, Idlers

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.59, Random House Group

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• A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

  David Mitchell

  World, Want, Strikes

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell (Story "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", Monday, 13th January - , p. 528), 2004.

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• A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

  David Mitchell

  Mountain

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.270, Random House

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• I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

  David Mitchell

  Fall, People, Balance

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.168, Random House

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• - This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

  David Mitchell

  Matter, Truth Is, Trails

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• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

  David Mitchell

  Knows

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.208, Random House

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• One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

  David Mitchell

  Men, Thinking, Density

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.440, Random House

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• Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

  David Mitchell

  Kings, Thinking, Spheres

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

  David Mitchell

  Fighting, Order, Soul

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• Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

  David Mitchell

  Stuff, Too Much

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

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• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

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• The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

  David Mitchell

  People, Stories, Use

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.378, Vintage

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• The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

  David Mitchell

  Smart, Mind, Lows

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror

  David Mitchell

  Mean, Mirrors, Pyramids

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• Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

  David Mitchell

  Keys, Order, Color

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

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• Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

  David Mitchell

  Cheating, Hurt, Pits

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.163, Vintage

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• The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Nouns, Verbs

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• Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

  David Mitchell

  Men, Aids, Mutual Aid

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.143, Random House Group

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• People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

  David Mitchell

  People, Ems, Caves

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

  David Mitchell

  Years, People, Broken

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.258, Random House

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• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Needs, Despise

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

  David Mitchell

  Two, Firsts, Steps

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.330, Random House Group

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