... 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 Mitchell

Mots clés age

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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 Mitchell

Mots clés art

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Quienquiera que se inventase eso de que el dinero no hace la felicidad, se regocija Lloyd Hooks, está claro que no tenía bastante.

David Mitchell

Mots clés money happiness spanish español felicidad dinero

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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 Mitchell

Mots clés dominion ladder-of-cvilization musket

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Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land

David Mitchell

Mots clés courage justify predators

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Scholars discern motions in history

David Mitchell

Mots clés humanity belief life-and-living

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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.

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Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime

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Try 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.

David Mitchell

Mots clés history hate self-discovery reflection postmodern postmodernism blame disgust self-disgust cloud-atlas

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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

David Mitchell

Mots clés cloud-atlas

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