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One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

David Mitchell

Ribs, Bars, Prison Bars

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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

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Lying, Thinking, Worry

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War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

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Country, War, Soldier

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Trees're always a relief, after people.

David Mitchell

People, Tree, Relief

David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.14, Hachette UK

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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

David Mitchell

Mother, Book, Used

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

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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

David Mitchell

Doorways, Earth, Clubs

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.75, Random House

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History admits no rules; only outcomes.

David Mitchell

Outcomes

David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.505, Random House Group

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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

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Views, Revolving, Loses

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.66, Random House

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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

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Memories

David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.286, Vintage

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If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

David Mitchell

Powerful, Lying, Giving

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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

David Mitchell

Mind, Body, Layers

David Mitchell (2008). “number9dream”, p.253, Hachette UK

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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

David Mitchell

Writing, Winter, Would Be

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.83, Hachette UK

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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Mitchell

Civilization, Jingles, Stuff

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.356, Random House

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Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

David Mitchell

Sex, Gay, Cities

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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

David Mitchell

War, Firsts, Efficiency

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To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

David Mitchell

Mistake, Differences, Six

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If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

David Mitchell

Funny, Skills, Want

"Fictional character: Mark Corrigan". TV Series "Peep Show" ("Dance Class", 2004), 2003-2015.

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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

David Mitchell

Hate, Boys, Littles

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Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

David Mitchell

Eggs, Bad Mood, Bricks

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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

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Beloved, Virtue, Neighbor

David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.22, Random House Group

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I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

David Mitchell

Past, Scared, Nervous

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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

David Mitchell

Play, World, Jokes

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This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

David Mitchell

Thinking, World, Masterpiece

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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Mitchell

Eloquent

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

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