David Mitchell Quotes - Page 9

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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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• Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

  David Mitchell

  Regret, Giving, Doe

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• The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

  David Mitchell

  Smart, Mind, Lows

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• If your words're true, they're armed.

  David Mitchell

  Ifs

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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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• 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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• - 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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• Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Eye

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

  David Mitchell

  Said

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• The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

  David Mitchell

  Flesh, Spirit, Weak

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.183, Random House Group

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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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• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

  David Mitchell

  Waiting, Sound, Atlas

  "Fictional character: Robert Frobisher". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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

  David Mitchell

  Hunger, Humans

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• Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

  David Mitchell

  Lonely, Writing, Sickness

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.467, Random House Group

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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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• Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

  David Mitchell

  War, Mean, Humanity

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

  David Mitchell

  Literature, Bigs, Behemoth

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• I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

  David Mitchell

  Novelists, Novel, Livelihood

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• I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, Parent, Savages

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• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

  David Mitchell

  Dad, Past, Brave

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

  David Mitchell

  Book, Thinking, People

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