“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
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David Mitchell, born in Catford, in South-East London, in 1952, is a British writer and paperfolding designer. He is the author of many books on specialist aspects of origami, such as *Origami*, *Origami Animals*, *Sticky Note Origami*, *Office Origami* and *Origami Alfresco*. He lives in Kendal, Cumbria. **Source**: [Author's website](http://www.origamiheaven.com/aboutdavidmitchell.htm)
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
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“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...”
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“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important th...”
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
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“...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
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“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, m...”
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“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.”
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“The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.”
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“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absol...”
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“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.”
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.”
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“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.”
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“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. A...”
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“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for n...”
“If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.”