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David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Quotes: Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
         

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


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

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...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.



I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

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