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

  David Mitchell

  Roaches, Soulless

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Reality is the page. Life is the word.

  David Mitchell

  Reality, Pages, Life Is

  "Number9Dream". Book by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. 2001.

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• I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Cat, Personality

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• Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

  David Mitchell

  One Day, Shows

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

  David Mitchell

  Historical, Revolution, Fantasy

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