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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
From Slade House
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Topic: Hope
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Hope
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.
From The Bone Clocks
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Television
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Death
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Sports
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Philosophical
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
From The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Topic: Religion
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Inspirational
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Topic: Religion
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational, Life
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
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Topic: Philosophical
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Happiness
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Life
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
From Slade House
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Topic: Hope
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Hope
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.
From The Bone Clocks
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Television
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Death
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Sports
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Philosophical
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
From The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Topic: Religion
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Inspirational
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Topic: Religion
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational, Life
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Happiness
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Life
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
From Slade House
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Topic: Hope
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Hope
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.
From The Bone Clocks
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Topic: Funny, Inspirational
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.
From Ghostwritten
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Topic: Television
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Death
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Sports
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Philosophical
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
From The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Topic: Religion
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.
From Number9Dream
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Topic: Inspirational
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Religion
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Inspirational, Life
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Happiness
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.
From Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Life