David Mitchell Quotes - Page 10

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• Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

  David Mitchell

  Dream

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

  David Mitchell

  Long, Way, Originality

  "David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. March 30, 2008.

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• Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

  David Mitchell

  Writing

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.401, Hachette UK

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• Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

  David Mitchell

  School, Belief, States

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.471, Random House

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• If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

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  Dream, Moving, Boards

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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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• I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

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  Funny, Wish, Asbestos

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• Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Faithful, Degrees

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

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  Numbers, People, Age

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• For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

  David Mitchell

  Novel

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• The human world is made of stories, not people.

  David Mitchell

  People, Stories, World

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

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• Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Persons

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286, 2004.

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• I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

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  Dream, Pain, Father

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• I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Answers, Maps

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.15, Vintage

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• I can write pretty much anywhere.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, I Can

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• Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

  David Mitchell

  Race, Humanity, Groups

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• Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

  David Mitchell

  President, Generations, Myopic

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell (p. 528), 2004.

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• I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

  David Mitchell

  Hbo, Wire, Productions

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• Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

  David Mitchell

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

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  Boredom, Judging, Fascination

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.40, Random House Group

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• The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

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  Debt, Way, Wealth

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• Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

  David Mitchell

  Footprint, Forlorn, Trails

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.8, Random House Group

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• Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

  David Mitchell

  Wise, War, Men

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.442, Random House Group

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• Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

  David Mitchell

  Party, Believe, Worry

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• Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Three, Lines

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