David Mitchell (author) quotes

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. (David Mitchell (author))
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell. View quote
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Travel far enough, you meet yourself. View quote
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Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. View quote
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Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. View quote
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. View quote
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken. View quote
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them. View quote
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The body is the outermost layer of the mind. View quote
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again. View quote
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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. (David Mitchell (author))
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. View quote
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Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more. View quote
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Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff. View quote
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How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! View quote
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. View quote
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. View quote
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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity. View quote
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance. View quote
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. View quote
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It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. (David Mitchell (author))
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. View quote
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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. View quote
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Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. View quote
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living. View quote
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