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“ The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present. ”

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

~ David Mitchell

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

~ David Mitchell

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.

~ David Mitchell