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

  David Mitchell

  Historical, Revolution, Fantasy

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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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• 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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• 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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• What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Clouds, Giving, Atlas

  "Cloud Atlas". "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 389. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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