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Centre, Minnesota. His childhood and early youth were spent in the Midwest, and later he attended Yale University, where he was editor of the literary magazine. After graduating in
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Walter Benjamin’s famous vision of history as a vast heap of wreckage of incidents and events that keeps piling higher and higher into infinity, with progress signifying merely more wreckage waiting to happen.”
― Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
― Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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