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  1. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.
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  2. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.
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  3. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    Thunder splits the rift where the Sun floods in."
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  4. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    To list and name people ... is to subjugate them.
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  5. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable Kosugi shall probably"--from Seawall Lane comes an almighty sigh and crash--"shall certainly be lodging elsewhere tonight, and I pissed my thigh from fear. Our glorious flag, as you see, is unhurt. Half of their shots flew over us"--the doctor looks landward--"and caused damage ashore.
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  6. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of course!' is a postponement, for what is it that directs the minds of the powerful? The answer is 'belief.' Beliefs that are ignoble or idealistic; democratic or Confucian; Occidental or Oriental; timid or bold; clearsighted or delusional. Power is informed by belief that path, and not another, must be followed.
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  7. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I.
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  8. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.
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  9. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
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  10. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. "Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying?
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  11. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't to be understood.
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  12. David Mitchell _ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob

    When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged,we believe that we are the surgeons.But time passes, and one sees the whole more clearly,and now I perceive us as surgical instruments used by the world.
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