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  1. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.
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  2. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Книга, которую вы читаете, уже не та, которой она была до того, как вы начали ее читать.
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  3. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Внизу Бунтаро жует «Принглз» и смотрит фильм, полный киборгов, мотоциклов и сварщиков. Киваю на экран: - Что смотришь? - Проверяю два закона кинематографа. - Какие? - Первый закон гласит: «Любой фильм, название которого заканчивается на «-атор», ничего не стоит». - А второй? - «Качество любого фильма находится в обратной зависимости от количества снятых в нем вертолетов».
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  4. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost
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  5. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn out to be needless excesses. Heroes become old farts, and young farts become heroes. Ethics become logos on sports clothing.
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  6. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Tokyo is a model of that serial big-bang theory of the universe. It explodes at five P.M. and people matter is hurled to the suburbs, but by 5 A.M. the people-matter gravity reasserts itself, and everything surges back toward the center, where mass densens for the next explosion.
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  7. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    ... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five percent of top-flight systems explorers are ethical."Ai gives Suga a black look. "And over eighty-five percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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  8. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their cars.
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  9. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies
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  10. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.
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  11. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand.
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  12. David Mitchell _ Number9Dream

    I emerge into a library/study with the highest book population density I have ever come across. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book side streets. Book spillages, book rubble. Papperback books, hardback books, atlases, manuals, almanacs. Nine lifetimes of books. Enough books to build an igloo to hide in. The room is sentient with books. Mirrors double and cube the books. A Great Wall of China quantity of books. Enough books to makes me wonder if I am a book too.
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