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David Mitchell Quotes

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The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.  (David Mitchell Quotes) An’ that cold hand o’ wind was Old Georgie’s hand, yay, the devil what was standin’ there wavin’ a crookit spoon.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one’s core.  (David Mitchell Quotes) When you’re out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don’t have at any other point in your life. When you’re in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it’s true for people, it’s also true on a national or cultural level.  (David Mitchell Quotes) I don’t have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I’m one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!  (David Mitchell Quotes) Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.  (David Mitchell Quotes) The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;  (David Mitchell Quotes) There’s been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it’s this huge psychological barrier.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it’s not jokes that are funny, it’s characters that are funny. And isn’t that true! That’s why I always kill jokes. I’m terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can’t get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president’s pen or a vainglorious general’s sword.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.  (David Mitchell Quotes) Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don’t respect cowards  (David Mitchell Quotes) We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing  (David Mitchell Quotes) One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground  (David Mitchell Quotes) I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment  (David Mitchell Quotes) This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself  (David Mitchell Quotes) How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?  (David Mitchell Quotes) The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts  (David Mitchell Quotes) ... now I’m a spent firework; but at least I’ve been a firework  (David Mitchell Quotes) Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves  (David Mitchell Quotes) All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities  (David Mitchell Quotes) Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute  (David Mitchell Quotes) But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters  (David Mitchell Quotes) Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw  (David Mitchell Quotes) I can’t bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can  (David Mitchell Quotes) I think it’s natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them  (David Mitchell Quotes) I’m a novelist, that’s how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels  (David Mitchell Quotes) I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave  (David Mitchell Quotes)
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