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David Mitchell

David Mitchell Quotes

Total quotes: 6

David Mitchell

Birthname

AKA: David Mitchell, David Ignacio Mitchell

Educated At: Kutztown University Of Pennsylvania, Boston University

Occupations: Scenic Design

Total quotes: 6

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Tagged: Life, Meaning, Universe

“You say you're 'depressed.' All I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective. It just means you're human.”

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Tagged: Depression, human, Resilience

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Tagged: Books, Reading, calming

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Tagged: Books, Reading, Escape

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Tagged: Hate, Love, Religion

“I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.”

— David Mitchell, Q&A An interview with David Mitchell, the author behind 'Cloud Atlas'

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