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1. "For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free." ~ David Mitchell
2. "War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins." ~ David Mitchell
3. "¡Y cuando exhales el último suspiro, sólo entonces, te darás cuenta de que tu vida no ha sido más que una minúscula gota en un océano infinito!Y sin embargo, ¿qué es un océano sino una multitud de gotas?" ~ David Mitchell
4. "If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you're ready'." ~ David Mitchell
5. "science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction." ~ David Mitchell
6. "Her oil-black hair's sort of punky. She must use gel. I'd love to gel her gel in for her." ~ David Mitchell
7. "A paz, tão amada por Nosso Senhor, só é uma virtude cardinal quando o próximo é da mesma opinião." ~ David Mitchell
8. "Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction" ~ David Mitchell
9. "Embrace your enemy," the elders urged, "to prevent him striking you." ("Embrace your enemy," Henry quipped, "to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.")" ~ David Mitchell
10. "Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach." ~ David Mitchell
11. "The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, because of all the manuscripts (inedible green tomatoes) submitted to Cavendish-Redux, my new stable of champions. I suppose it was about eleven o'clock when I heard my front door being interfered with. Skinhead munchkins mug-or-treating?Cherry knockers? The wind?Next thing I knew, the door flew in off its ruddy hinges! I was thinking al-Queda, I was thinking ball lightning, but no. Down the hallway tramped what seemed like an entire rugby team, though the intruders numbered only three. (You'll notice, I am always attacked in threes.) "Timothy," pronounced the gargoyliest, "Cavendish, I presume. Caught with your cacks down.""My business hours are eleven to two, gentlemen," Bogart would have said, "with a three-hour break for lunch. Kindly leave." All I could do was blurt, "Oy! My door! My ruddy door!" ~ David Mitchell
12. "I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them." ~ David Mitchell
13. "Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right." ~ David Mitchell
14. "Memory Serves." Duplicitous couplet." ~ David Mitchell
15. "My voice was jus' a duck fart in a hurrycane." ~ David Mitchell
16. "Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position." ~ David Mitchell
17. "an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon." ~ David Mitchell
18. "He chiseled open the fault lines in the others' personalities." ~ David Mitchell
19. "Assent was indignant & universal" ~ David Mitchell
20. "Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns." ~ David Mitchell
21. "Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair. I wanted to say that it's not America they're aping, it's the Japan of their parents that they're rejecting. And since there's no home-grown counter culture, they just take hold of the nearest one to hand, which happens to be American. But it's not American culture exploiting us. It's us exploiting it." ~ David Mitchell
22. "Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly." ~ David Mitchell
23. "I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy." ~ David Mitchell
24. "If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up." ~ David Mitchell
25. "Time is the speed at which the past decays." ~ David Mitchell
26. "I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended." ~ David Mitchell
27. "I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all." ~ David Mitchell
28. "Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter." ~ David Mitchell
29. "Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay." ~ David Mitchell
30. "To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes." ~ David Mitchell
31. "independence, who disappointed the Natives" ~ David Mitchell
32. "Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love." ~ David Mitchell
33. "A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still." ~ David Mitchell
34. "Writing is such a damn lonely sickness." ~ David Mitchell
35. "False modesty can be worse than arrogance." ~ David Mitchell
36. "Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again." ~ David Mitchell
37. "If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way." ~ David Mitchell
38. "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
39. "The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes." ~ David Mitchell
40. "Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go." ~ David Mitchell
41. "Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye." ~ David Mitchell
42. "Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, ‘Ah…they die because gods decide so.' Or, ‘They die because bad karma.' Or, ‘They die because o-mamori—magic from temple—too cheap.' Mr. de Zoet understand, it is same as bridge. True reason of many,. Many death of ignoration. I wish to build bridge from ignoration," her tapering hands form a bridge, "to knowledge. This," she lifts, with reverence, Dr. Smellie's text, "is piece of bridge. One day, I teach this knowledge…make school…students who teach other students…and in future, in Japan, many less mothers die of ignoration." She surveys her daydream for just a moment before lowering her eyes. "A foolish plan." ~ David Mitchell
43. "Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to." ~ David Mitchell
44. ". . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned." ~ David Mitchell
45. "Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers." ~ David Mitchell
46. "Snow is bruised lilac in half light: such pure solace." ~ David Mitchell
47. "Foolproof depends on the size of the fool" ~ David Mitchell
48. "Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine." ~ David Mitchell
49. "Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning." ~ David Mitchell
50. "My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss" ~ David Mitchell
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