... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
David MitchellStichwörter: age
But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!" - as if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void-Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!)
David MitchellStichwörter: art
Quienquiera que se inventase eso de que el dinero no hace la felicidad, se regocija Lloyd Hooks, está claro que no tenía bastante.
David MitchellStichwörter: money happiness spanish español felicidad dinero
Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined
David MitchellStichwörter: dominion ladder-of-cvilization musket
Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land
David MitchellStichwörter: courage justify predators
Scholars discern motions in history
David MitchellStichwörter: humanity belief life-and-living
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
David MitchellAnticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime
David MitchellTry this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."
I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.
Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
Stichwörter: history hate self-discovery reflection postmodern postmodernism blame disgust self-disgust cloud-atlas
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
David MitchellStichwörter: cloud-atlas
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