David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Quotes

#1. One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

Wendell Berry

#2. Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

David Mitchell

#3. All boundaries are conventions.

David Mitchell

#4. So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

David Mitchell

#5. Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.

Rachel Caine

#6. Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!
Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.

Toba Beta

#7. I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

David Mitchell

#8. A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#9. Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Saint Augustine

#10. I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

John Mulaney

#11. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

Knut Hamsun

#12. She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move out of Texas. To be a former Texan would be like growing up in Italy, moving out and being formerly Italian.

Jeffrey Michelson

#13. I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

David Mitchell

#14. Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#15. Voltaire had once said that it was a good idea for a writer to live near an international frontier so that, if he angered powerful men, he could skip across the border and be safe. Voltaire

Salman Rushdie

#16. Every nowhere is somewhere[...]

David Mitchell

#17. If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.

Jonathan Gottschall

#18. Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers.

Jonathan Yardley

#19. Friedrich kissed the top of her head. "Yes, before I fell in love with you," he said, sounding quite sheepish. "After that I grew quite stubborn about wanting to woo you rather than to buy your affections." "And

K.M. Shea

#20. It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'

Susan Barker