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• Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

  David Mitchell

  Stuff, Too Much

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.80, Random House Group

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• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

  David Mitchell

  Earth, Clubs, Exclusive

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.80, Random House Group

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• The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.

  David Mitchell

  Rain, Roof, Streets

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• When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

  David Mitchell

  London, Pavement, Rooms

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

  David Mitchell

  Knows

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.208, Random House

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• Music’s a wood you walk through.

  David Mitchell

  Woods, Walks

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• ... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Fear, Ignorance

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.344, Random House

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• Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

  David Mitchell

  Firsts, Easy, Young

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.268, Random House Group

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• . . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Night, Unpredictable

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• Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

  David Mitchell

  Kings, Thinking, Spheres

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

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• Do ants get headaches?

  David Mitchell

  Ants, Headache

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• She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

  David Mitchell

  Appreciate, Enough, Source

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.362, Random House

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• Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

  David Mitchell

  Mirages, Salvation, Credibility

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.193, Random House

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• Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

  David Mitchell

  Humanity, World, End Of The World

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.451, Random House Group

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• I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.

  David Mitchell

  Selfish, Lying, Bed

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• The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

  David Mitchell

  Eye, Her Eyes, Through My Eyes

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.54, Vintage

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• If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

  David Mitchell

  Mean, Adversity, Purpose

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.188, Random House

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• …and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

  David Mitchell

  Ocean, Blue, Sky

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

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

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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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• I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

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  Two, Firsts, Steps

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.330, Random House Group

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• I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

  David Mitchell

  Fall, People, Balance

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.168, Random House

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• - This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

  David Mitchell

  Matter, Truth Is, Trails

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• A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

  David Mitchell

  Mountain

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.270, Random House

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