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Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
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war
women
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
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Dead things show you what you'll be too one day.
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David Mitchell |
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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."
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David Mitchell |
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Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers.
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At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.
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nature
waves
sun
water
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David Mitchell |
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54843c0
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What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars."
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David Mitchell |
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Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
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provocative-inspirational
pacifism
peace
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Bitch' is a stingless insult these days--it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing.
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David Mitchell |
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And for What, For What. No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a limitless ocean. What is an ocean but a multitude of drops.
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But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person.
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David Mitchell |
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Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where've the yellow and the blue gone? Somehow this is to do with Moran's dad. Somehow this is to do with everyone and everything.
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David Mitchell |
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2c374aa
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Every nowhere is somewhere[...]
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life
inspirational
journey
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David Mitchell |
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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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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.
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technology
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David Mitchell |
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ab08e08
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Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.
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soul
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David Mitchell |
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85454f6
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Access to memories does not guarantee access to truth.
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David Mitchell |
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9749525
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Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." "Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
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David Mitchell |
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The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the..
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rape
violence
pain
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David Mitchell |
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and there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me...like the snow had done. All the woe of the words, "I am" seemed dissolved there, painlessly, peacefully. Hae-Joo announced, "The Ocean."
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David Mitchell |
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994ca0d
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Music's a wood you walk through.
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David Mitchell |
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b2e8f2a
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Shit, meet Fan. Fan, this is Shit.
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shit
meet
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David Mitchell |
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8aa8875
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There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything seems perfect, it means you're one of the Eloi and a Morlock is watching you with a napkin tucked under its chin.
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David Mitchell |
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Civilisation's like the economy or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it's real, it dies.
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David Mitchell |
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How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
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David Mitchell |
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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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David Mitchell |
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For one voyage to begin, another voyage must come to an end, sort of.
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David Mitchell |
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A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it--suicide tak..
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life-experiences
little-people
sucide
reasoning
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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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David Mitchell |
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I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.
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David Mitchell |
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3b59868
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If your words're true, they're armed.
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David Mitchell |
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True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
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David Mitchell |
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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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David Mitchell |
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Love is a blurring of pronouns. Love is subject and object. The difference between its presence and its absence is the difference between life and death.
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David Mitchell |
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Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
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David Mitchell |
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She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.
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David Mitchell |
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Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless battle is not an act of cowardice. Hankering for security or popularity makes you weak and vulnerable. Which is worse: Scorn earned by informers? Misery endured by victims? The brutal May have been molded by a brutality you cannot exceed. Let guile be your ally. Respect earned by i..
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David Mitchell |
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Time needs time to be measurable.
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David Mitchell |
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We had run out of infinity.
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David Mitchell |
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Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
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David Mitchell |
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If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell.
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David Mitchell |
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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David Mitchell |
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Life is a terminal illness.
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David Mitchell |
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8d3d5bf
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Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in , and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?
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dark-humour
different
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David Mitchell |