Cloud Atlas Quotes
Robert Frobisher: [narrating]Dinner of pheasant with Bordeaux rich as buttercream. How I love to listen to men of distinguished lives sing of past follies and glories. The only broken note in the entire evening was Ayrs' wife, Jocasta, excusing herself early. Sensed the buried bone. Later I asked Ayrs about it, he said Kesselring had introduced Jocasta to him. I pried, had Kesselring been in love with her. The subject was a prickly one.
Vyvyan Ayrs: Jocasta was a Jew. Obviously the relationship was impossible.
Robert Frobisher: Why obviously?
Vyvyan Ayrs: Can you really be so ignorant of what is happening in Germany?
Robert Frobisher: [continues narration]At this point in my life all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.
Vyvyan Ayrs: Jocasta was a Jew. Obviously the relationship was impossible.
Robert Frobisher: Why obviously?
Vyvyan Ayrs: Can you really be so ignorant of what is happening in Germany?
Robert Frobisher: [continues narration]At this point in my life all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.
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Timothy Cavendish: Outside, fat snow flakes are falling on slate roofs and granite walls. Like Solzhenitsyn, labouring in Vermont, I shall beaver away in exile. Unlike Solzhenitsyn, I shan't be alone.
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Timothy Cavendish: Never forget Herman Melville, writes a ripping yarn about a big white whale which is summarily dismissed, and yet today it is lugged around in the backpacks of every serious student of literature in the world.
Dermot Hoggins: I don't give a fuck what happens when I'm dead, I want people to buy me book now!
Timothy Cavendish: Well, as your publisher, obviously nothing would make me happier. But sadly, for whatever reason, 'Knuckle Sandwich' has yet to connect to its audience.
Dermot Hoggins: You want a reason? I'll give you a reason [points]
Dermot Hoggins: Right there!
Timothy Cavendish: Aaaa, you mean Mr Finch?
Dermot Hoggins: Felix fuckin' Finch! That cunt that shat all over me book in his poncy fuckin' magazine!
Timothy Cavendish: It wasn't that bad.
Dermot Hoggins: No? [quotes]
Dermot Hoggins: 'Mr Hoggins should apologize to the trees failed for the making of his bloated autobio novel. Four hundred vain-glorious pages expire in an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief'.
Timothy Cavendish: Steady now, Dermot. What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely.
Dermot Hoggins: I don't give a fuck what happens when I'm dead, I want people to buy me book now!
Timothy Cavendish: Well, as your publisher, obviously nothing would make me happier. But sadly, for whatever reason, 'Knuckle Sandwich' has yet to connect to its audience.
Dermot Hoggins: You want a reason? I'll give you a reason [points]
Dermot Hoggins: Right there!
Timothy Cavendish: Aaaa, you mean Mr Finch?
Dermot Hoggins: Felix fuckin' Finch! That cunt that shat all over me book in his poncy fuckin' magazine!
Timothy Cavendish: It wasn't that bad.
Dermot Hoggins: No? [quotes]
Dermot Hoggins: 'Mr Hoggins should apologize to the trees failed for the making of his bloated autobio novel. Four hundred vain-glorious pages expire in an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief'.
Timothy Cavendish: Steady now, Dermot. What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely.
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[Frobisher is misplaying Ayrs' composition]Vyvyan Ayrs: [pained]Stop. Please. You're hurting me. You must have misheard me. I said a melody, not a malady. [Jocasta enters]
Jocasta Ayrs: Vyvyan?
Vyvyan Ayrs: Jocasta! Deliver me.
Jocasta Ayrs: What's going on here? Who is this?
Jocasta Ayrs: I see. Should I be introduced?
Vyvyan Ayrs: There's really no point. The boy is as useful as the clap. Fortunately, he'll be much easier to get rid of.
Jocasta Ayrs: Vyvyan?
Vyvyan Ayrs: Jocasta! Deliver me.
Jocasta Ayrs: What's going on here? Who is this?
Jocasta Ayrs: I see. Should I be introduced?
Vyvyan Ayrs: There's really no point. The boy is as useful as the clap. Fortunately, he'll be much easier to get rid of.
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[first lines]Zachry: [shivering beside the fire]Oh, lonesome night. And babbits bawling, the wind biting the bone. Wind like this... full of voices. Ancestry howling at you, yibbering stories, all voices tied up into one. One voice differing. One voice, whispering out there, spying from the dark. The fangy devil, Old Georgie hisself. Mm. Now your ear up close, and I'll yarn you about the first time we met, eye to eye.
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[last lines]Miro: Do you still love Grammy?
Zachry: Your grammy is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Meronym: Come on here, Grampy. Lemme warm them old bones.
Zachry: Your grammy is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Meronym: Come on here, Grampy. Lemme warm them old bones.
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Robert Frobisher: [From Trailer]There are whole movements I wrote, imagining us meeting again and again, in different lives, different ages...
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Luisa Rey: You seem nervous. Do I make you nervous, Isaac?
Isaac Sachs: No. Actually, just the opposite.
Isaac Sachs: No. Actually, just the opposite.
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Cavendish Look-A-Like Actor: This is a violation of the ruddy Incarceration Act! I will not be subjugated to criminal abuse!
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Isaac Sachs: Proposition: I have fallen in love with Louisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet, I feel like something important has happened.
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Timothy Cavendish: [narrating]In the darkness, I suddenly saw the light. Blood has always trumped water. If the Hogginses brutes wanted to turn this into a family affair, they'd find the Cavendish clan more than ready for the task at hand.
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[Dr. Goose is tending to Adam]Adam Ewing: I don't know what would have happened without you there.
Dr. Henry Goose: Well, for starters, you would have died! [laughs]
Adam Ewing: I don't know how to repay you.
Dr. Henry Goose: Adam, I am a doctor. A tiger cannot change his stripes.
Dr. Henry Goose: Well, for starters, you would have died! [laughs]
Adam Ewing: I don't know how to repay you.
Dr. Henry Goose: Adam, I am a doctor. A tiger cannot change his stripes.
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Denholme Cavendish: [answering phone in the middle of the night]Ugh, who the bloody hell is this? Have you any idea what time it is?
Timothy Cavendish: Denny, it's me, Tim
Denholme Cavendish: Timothy? Where are you?
Timothy Cavendish: I think you ruddy well know where I am!
Denholme Cavendish: But residents aren't allowed access to phones. Has someone smuggled one in?
Timothy Cavendish: What? You know the rules?
Denholme Cavendish: I helped *write* them, Timmy. I have been a principal investor in Aurora House for twelve years. It's incredibly lucrative. You can't believe how much people will pay to lock up their parents.
Timothy Cavendish: Denny, it's me, Tim
Denholme Cavendish: Timothy? Where are you?
Timothy Cavendish: I think you ruddy well know where I am!
Denholme Cavendish: But residents aren't allowed access to phones. Has someone smuggled one in?
Timothy Cavendish: What? You know the rules?
Denholme Cavendish: I helped *write* them, Timmy. I have been a principal investor in Aurora House for twelve years. It's incredibly lucrative. You can't believe how much people will pay to lock up their parents.
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Isaac Sachs: I had... a girlfriend once. She kept trying to get me to read... Carlos Castenada. You ever read any of *that* shit?
Luisa Rey: Oh yeah.
Isaac Sachs: But the relationship was doomed. Every time she brought up any of the karma, past life stuff, I-I couldn't stop myself from laughing. And yet... I can't explain it. But I knew when I opened that door... [trails off, becomes serious]
Isaac Sachs: They destroyed most of the copies of the report.
Luisa Rey: Most?
Isaac Sachs: There's no good choice here, is there? If I help you, I could lose my job, or worse. If I don't, a lot of people... yeah it'll be worse than worse.
Luisa Rey: You have to do... whatever you can't *not* do.
Luisa Rey: Oh yeah.
Isaac Sachs: But the relationship was doomed. Every time she brought up any of the karma, past life stuff, I-I couldn't stop myself from laughing. And yet... I can't explain it. But I knew when I opened that door... [trails off, becomes serious]
Isaac Sachs: They destroyed most of the copies of the report.
Luisa Rey: Most?
Isaac Sachs: There's no good choice here, is there? If I help you, I could lose my job, or worse. If I don't, a lot of people... yeah it'll be worse than worse.
Luisa Rey: You have to do... whatever you can't *not* do.
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Dermot Hoggins: [after throwing Felix Finch off of a tenth floor balcony to his death]Now *that's* an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief!
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[from trailer]Robert Frobisher: A half-finished book is, after all, a half finished love affair.
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[from trailer]Javier: What are you reading?
Luisa Rey: Old letters.
Javier: Why do you keep reading them?
Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over.
Luisa Rey: Old letters.
Javier: Why do you keep reading them?
Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over.
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[from trailer]Isaac Sachs: Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet... I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey.
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[from trailer]Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream.
Robert Frobisher: I call it the Cloud Atlas Sextet.
Robert Frobisher: I call it the Cloud Atlas Sextet.
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