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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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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.
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Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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Now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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If losers can xploit [sic] what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long time.
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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.
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History admits no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief.
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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.
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What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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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.
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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.
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just bu existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk to slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drugs barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
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But ain't dyin' terrorsome cold if there ain't nothin' after?
Yay—she sort o' laughed but not smilin', nay—our truth is terrorsome cold.
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How lazily "xperts" [sic] dismiss what they fail to understand.
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Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.
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People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.
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"But it's been done a hundred times before!" — As if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!
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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
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Born:
January 12, 1969
(age 52)
Bio:
David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written seven novels, two of which, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Italy, Japan, and Ireland.
Known for:
Peep Show (2003 – 2015)
That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006 – 2010)
Would I Lie to You? (Since 2007)
Mock the Week (Since 2005)
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