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• A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

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• Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

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• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

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• Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people’s women who pay the most.

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• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

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• A half-read book is like a half-finished love affair.

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• Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

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• How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

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• The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

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• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

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• Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

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• Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one’s core.

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• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

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David Mitchell (14)

Birth:	12th January, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Italy, Japan and Ireland.

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