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Uzaemon is no longer surprised by Shuzai's perspicacity. "I don't know if I have the right to involve you." "To a believer in Fate," replies Shuzai, "it's not you who is involving me."
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extrovert
introversion
introvert
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David Mitchell |
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Who wins, you or the sony?" The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve? So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?"
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David Mitchell |
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there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
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David Mitchell |
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ae6270e
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conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one--or a hired one, it matters not--to take you home.
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David Mitchell |
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4f55d03
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What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten.
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David Mitchell |
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8f656e2
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Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what 'is' for what 'should be' pursues his downfall rather than his preservation; for a man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good." For this plainspoken pragmatism, Cardinal Pole denounced Nic..
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David Mitchell |
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When shaving, thinks Jacob, a man rereads his truest memoir.
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David Mitchell |
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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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David Mitchell |
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f4d9991
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Our right to be here is weaker by the minute
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David Mitchell |
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent. Tuesday,
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David Mitchell |
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Are you mad?' Always a trickier question than it looks.
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David Mitchell |
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Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds and contrary tides ... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an a..
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David Mitchell |
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everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.
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caste-system
casual-brutality
racism
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David Mitchell |
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7a906eb
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Like a shiny silver pinball whizzing out of the firing lane, I've not got the faintest bloody clue where I'm going or what'll happen next.
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David Mitchell |
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This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent clever kids from working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege
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David Mitchell |
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Kto tam dyshit mne v zatylok? Oborachivaius' - nikogo. Tol'ko poezd, nabiraia skorost', nyriaet v temnotu.
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David Mitchell |
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There's lying," says Mum, fishing out the envelope she wrote the directions on from her handbag, "which is wrong, and there's creating the right impression, which is necessary."
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David Mitchell |
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But the idea that you can no longer trust your mind, that's just about the most frightening thing there is. When you mess around with proportion or symmetry, or when doubt is injected into your perception of the laws of physics, your mind ceases to be a refuge. Your mind is no longer a safe house.
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David Mitchell |
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All that way, and he never crossed the bridge.
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David Mitchell |
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025ac43
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You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gunships, our heritage & our legacy? Why fight the "natural" (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this:--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is th..
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David Mitchell |
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4d74312
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Nothing more costly than item that has no price.
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David Mitchell |
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21da29a
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one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is
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David Mitchell |
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Okay, so she's mad as a sack of ferrets. Only I don't tell her so 'cause I'd like more of that green tea.
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David Mitchell |
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Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term side effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. Power's comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballot box, diktat, and accident of birth, are the plot of history. The empowered may serve..
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David Mitchell |
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But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.
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David Mitchell |
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f866989
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Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term side effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. Power's comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballot box, diktat, and accident of birth, are the plot of history. The empowered may serve..
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David Mitchell |
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A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness."
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David Mitchell |
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Nothing has changed, except everything.
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David Mitchell |
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adf77da
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A random sequence of seemingly unrelated events.
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David Mitchell |
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b574650
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The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
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life
revolutionary
science
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David Mitchell |
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8c3e74a
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Ungluckswurm Olly ist also ein Horspiel auf Radio 4. Und was bin ich?" - "Du, Hugo", sie kusste mich aufs Ohrlappchen, "bist ein schmutziger franzosischer Low-Budget-Film., Einer, auf den man nachts zufallig im Fernsehen stosst. Du weisst, dass du es morgen fruh bereust, aber du schaust ihn dir trotzdem an." Unten im Hof pfeift jemand ein vergessenes Lied."
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David Mitchell |
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The truth of a myth, Your Honor, is not its words but its patterns." Shiroyama"
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David Mitchell |
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Ungluckswurm Olly ist also ein Horspiel auf Radio 4. Und was bin ich?" - "Du, Hugo", sie kusst mich aufs Ohrlappchen, "bist ein schmutziger franzosischer Low-Budget-Film, auf den man nachts zufallig im Fernsehen stosst. Du weisst, dass du es morgen fruh bereust, aber du schaust ihn dir trotzdem an." Unten im Hof pfeift jemand ein vergessenes Lied."
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David Mitchell |
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The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something ...'
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David Mitchell |
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dbb3302
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You ask a starved man," Gerritszoon says, "to drink to a glutton."
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David Mitchell |
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What else has changes since 1984? Oil's running our, I say Earth's population is eight billion, mass extinction of flora and fauna are commonplace, climate change is foreclosing the Holocene Era. Aparteid's dead, as are the Castros in Cuba as is privacy. The USSR went bankrupt; the Eastern bloc collapsed; Germany reunified; the EU has gone federal; China's a powerhouse- though their air is industrial effluence in a gaseous state - and North..
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David Mitchell |
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Pretending",' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.' 'But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'
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human-relations
maturity
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David Mitchell |
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2015fc1
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Nothing often poses in men as wisdom. Spring
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David Mitchell |
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784c3ba
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It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up.
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David Mitchell |
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25291f9
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Den svateho Valentyna, Den matek a Den bezrukych brankaru jsou bez vyjimky komploty vyrobcu pohlednic, kvetinarek a cokoladoven.
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svátky
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David Mitchell |
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Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity
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David Mitchell |
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4509c73
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Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks
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David Mitchell |
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1be7842
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All minds pulse in a unique way, just as every lighthouse in the world has a unique signature. Some minds pulse consistently, some erratically. Some are lukewarm, some are hot. Some flare out, some are very nearly not there. Some stay on the fringe, like quasars.
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David Mitchell |
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. God
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David Mitchell |