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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.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Moving, Boards

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• Do ants get headaches?

  David Mitchell

  Ants, Headache

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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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• A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

  David Mitchell

  World, Want, Strikes

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell (Story "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", Monday, 13th January - , p. 528), 2004.

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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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• It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

  David Mitchell

  World, Small World

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.419, Random House Group

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• Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

  David Mitchell

  Games, Doe, Nero

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• The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

  David Mitchell

  Longing, Provoking

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

  David Mitchell

  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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• I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

  David Mitchell

  Errors, Mental Illness, Illness

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.197, Random House Group

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

  David Mitchell

  Novel

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• Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

  David Mitchell

  Technology, Soldier, Quality

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.266, Random House

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• Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Goodbye, Remember

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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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• Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

  David Mitchell

  Law, Each Month, Hoarding

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 237, 2004.

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• I can write pretty much anywhere.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, I Can

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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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• Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

  David Mitchell

  Winning, Stuff, Dies

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.205, Random House

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