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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.”
― David Mitchell

“Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.”
― David Mitchell

“Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“We were, to quote the proverb,
"The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“People b'lief the world is built so
an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men...”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems