David Mitchell Quotes

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• Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

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• Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Past, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Sonmi-451". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

  David Mitchell

  Healing, Mean, Resilience

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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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• You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

  David Mitchell

  Men, Long, People

  "Fictional character: Sonmi~451". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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• Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Real, Reading

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Ocean, Atlas

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• Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

  David Mitchell

  Victory, Ordinary, Accepted

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Doors, Waiting

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• Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Sharks, Joy

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• Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

  David Mitchell

  Truth, Reality, Atlas

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.188, Random House Group

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• I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Mean, People

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.207, 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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• Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Speed, Disappear

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• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Book, Half

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.64, Random House

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• It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

  David Mitchell

  Reading, Blind, Novel

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.365, Random House Group

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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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• Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

  David Mitchell

  Language, Prison, Foreign Language

  David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

  David Mitchell

  Girl, Cat, Earth

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.229, Vintage

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• As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

  David Mitchell

  Reading, Doors, Magic

  "David Mitchell's webchat: 10 things we learned". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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• True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

  David Mitchell

  True Knowledge, Sustenance

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.226, Hachette UK

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• In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Selfishness, Extinction

  "Cloud Atlas". "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 528. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Reading

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.365, Random House

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• If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Reading, Fate

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.305, Hachette UK

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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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