Дэвид Стивен Митчелл — английский автор романов, два из которых вошли в шортлист Букеровской премии. Wikipedia
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„План, конечно, страусиный, но бывают ситуации, когда страусиная стратегия — самая верная.“
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Paris Review
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", p. 340 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 422 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 315 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 155 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 23 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.”
Interview "David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand" at ABC.net (30 March 2008) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2201562.htm
Interview in The Paris Review http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6034/the-art-of-fiction-no-204-david-mitchell
“That love loves fidelity [is] a myth woven by men from their insecurities.”
"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 72 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.”
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 41 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them.”
"Night Train"
Ghostwritten (1999)
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 269 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Контексте: List'n, savages an Civ'lizeds ain't divvied by tribes or b'liefs or mountain ranges, nay, ev'ry human is both, yay. Old Uns'd got the Smart o' gods but the savagery o' jackals, an' that's what tripped the Fall.
Interview in Stop Smiling magazine (29 June 2007) http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=841&page=2]
Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 315 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.”
"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths."
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 508
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 2)
"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 470
Cloud Atlas (2004), Letters from Zedelghem (Part 2)
"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 460
Cloud Atlas (2004), Letters from Zedelghem (Part 2)
“What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all?”
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", p. 401
Cloud Atlas (2004), Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 2)
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 368
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
“Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.”
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 363
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 354
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 329
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
“Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 326
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
“A Soul's value is the dollars therein.”
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 325
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
