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“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: funny

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“The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: cloud-atlas, improvement, learning-from-mistakes, loser, perspective, postmodern, postmodernism, winner, wisdom

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“She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: literary-quotes, wit, women

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