David Mitchell Quotes - Page 6

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• The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

  David Mitchell

  People, Stories, Use

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

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• over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Humor, Statistics

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• Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

  David Mitchell

  Said

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• Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

  David Mitchell

  Memories, Ancestor

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• Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

  David Mitchell

  Feet, Tree, Soil

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.182, Random House Group

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• Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

  David Mitchell

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Flaunting

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.98, Random House Group

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• Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

  David Mitchell

  Intention, Starting, Starting Now

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.90, Random House Group

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• Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

  David Mitchell

  War, Years, Remission

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.453, Random House

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• A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Women, Use

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.254, Vintage

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• Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

  David Mitchell

  Complaining, Folks

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.350, Vintage

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• The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

  David Mitchell

  World, Make Sense

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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

  David Mitchell

  Lucky, Beats, Chanting

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• I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

  David Mitchell

  Thankful To God, Mercy

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.504, Random House Group

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• If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Ocean, Race

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• Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

  David Mitchell

  Fiction, Plausible

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.53, Random House Group

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• It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

  David Mitchell

  Jace, Ends, Feels

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• I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

  David Mitchell

  People, Lists

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.145, Vintage

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• I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Trying, World

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• ... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

  David Mitchell

  Attitude, Years, Soul

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.390, Random House Group

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• The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

  David Mitchell

  Chickens, Malicious

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.385, Hachette UK

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• Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

  David Mitchell

  Smart, Heart, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.276, Random House Group

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• I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

  David Mitchell

  Important, Atlas, Feels

  "Fictional character: Isaac Sachs". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. September 8, 2012.

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• Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

  David Mitchell

  Hunger, Humans

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• There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

  David Mitchell

  Links, Spelling, Bigotry

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