“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“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.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Reality is the page. Life is the word.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“The body is the outermost layer of the mind.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi: ‘There are plenty more humans where we come from, so does that make homicide okay?”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“I feel sad that I found what I searched for, but no longer want what I found.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.”
― David Mitchell, quote from number9dream
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“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in hand, tiptoeing so as not to disturb her postcoital rest, he himself slips silently out of the plot on the grounds of its general implausibility, a total lack of gravity, reliance at too many key points on unlikely coincidence, an absence of inner coherence, and not even the most tenuous evidence of anything resembling a serious meaning or purpose. The story so far is frivolously plotted, overplotted, for his taste altogether too freakishly plotted, with outlandish events so wildly careening around every corner that there is nowhere for intelligence to establish a foothold and develop a perspective. As if the look-alike at the story's storm center isn't farfetched enough, there is the capricious loss of the Smilesburger check (there is the fortuitous appearance of the Smilesburger check; there is Louis B. Smilesburger himself, Borscht Belt deus ex machina), which sets the action on its unconvincing course and serves to reinforce the writer's sense that the story has been intentionally conceived as a prank, and a nasty prank at that, considering the struggles of Jewish existence that are said to be at issue by his antagonist.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Operation Shylock: A Confession
“first, he called idiot savant. The type of person who is so smart in his or her field of expertise that their mind is literally elsewhere. In layman’s terms he explained that these people were smart in school and dumb on the bus. The second category was made up of perfectionists, people who were incapable of letting go of one task and moving on to another. These people were always playing catch-up, rarely rose to any real position of power, and needed to be managed properly. The third category, and the one to be most wary of, were the egomaniacs. These were the people who not only felt that their time was more important than anyone else’s, but who needed to prove it by constantly making others wait”
― Vince Flynn, quote from Act of Treason
“It was a kind of circular thing: to be the kind of person who would have taken Faith in, he had to be the kind of person who would take her back.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Blessings
“But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?”
― Alice Munro, quote from Runaway
“I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Human Croquet
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