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  1. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    I und'standed why Meronym'd not said the hole true 'bout Prescience Isle an' her tribe too. People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin 'em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. Old
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  2. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. God
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  3. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity
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  4. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
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    A random sequence of seemingly unrelated events.
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  6. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    Nothing has changed, except everything.
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  7. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness.
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  8. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    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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  9. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    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 the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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  10. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    & everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.
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  11. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    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 atlas of clouds.
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  12. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    Are you mad?' Always a trickier question than it looks.
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