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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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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

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Mirrors, Trying, Asking

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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

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Long, Loser, Winner

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

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Inspirational, Women, Use

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

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

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War, Years, Remission

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

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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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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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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

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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.

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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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What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

David Mitchell

Liars, Games, Cards

David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.213, Random House Group

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Time is the speed at which the past decays.

David Mitchell

Past, Decay, Speed

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.235, Random House

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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.

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Attitude, Years, Soul

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

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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

David Mitchell

Summer, Goodbye, Remember

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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

David Mitchell

Links, Spelling, Bigotry

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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

David Mitchell

Phones, People, Too Late

David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.70, Vintage

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Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

David Mitchell

Love, Grief, Men

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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

David Mitchell

Soul, Sin, Hell

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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

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Garden, Bird, Dawn

David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.84, Random House Group

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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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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

David Mitchell

Strong, Novelists, Needs

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

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Beautiful, Trying, World

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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

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Eating, Used, Fishes

"What's in your basket?". Interview with Olivia Gordon, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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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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The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

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Soul, Nouns, Verbs

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