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

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Source : David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

David Mitchell

#Inspirational Quotes #Real Quotes #Book Quotes

“Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.”
“Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.”
“I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.”
“All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.”
“Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.”
“Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.”
“The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.”

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