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

  David Mitchell

  Construction, Sentences, Adept

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Atlas, Birth

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

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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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• 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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• People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

  David Mitchell

  People, Becoming, Obscenity

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.470, Random House

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• We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

  David Mitchell

  Lasts, Eloquent, Last Time

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.347, Random House

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• All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

  David Mitchell

  Historical, Revolution, Fantasy

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• Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Goodbye, Autumn

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• What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Ocean, Atlas, Drops In The Ocean

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.506, Random House Group

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