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David Mitchell  Quotes
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

—David Mitchell

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BooksLoveReading
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Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. “I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?

—David Mitchell

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PoliticsPower
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Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they...

—David Mitchell

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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

—David Mitchell

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BodyMind
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you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

—David Mitchell

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WritersWriting
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Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?

—David Mitchell

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Law
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Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don’t fit in.

—David Mitchell

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Motherhood
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Teachers’re always using that “in your own words.” I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It’s their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How’re you s’posed...

—David Mitchell

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One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards will be at one’s throat all the sooner.

—David Mitchell

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Music
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… in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights”, the only law, are whatever is willed...

—David Mitchell

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The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That’s it.

—David Mitchell

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Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

—David Mitchell

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Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn’t sound like very powerful magic to me.

—David Mitchell

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Me and Vinny are dead careful, and we only had sex once without a condom, our first time, and it’s a scientific fact that virgins can’t get pregnant. Stella told me.

—David Mitchell

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If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

—David Mitchell

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La paz es como el cristal: si se golpea repetidamente, termina mostrando su fragilidad.

—David Mitchell

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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

—David Mitchell

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Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t think the view could be any more perfect until I saw that beat-up...

—David Mitchell

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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

—David Mitchell

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Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don’t remember summer even saying goodbye.

—David Mitchell

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AutumnSummer
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

—David Mitchell

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

—David Mitchell

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HateLoveReligion
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As if Art is the What, not the How!

—David Mitchell

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ArtEssence
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A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

—David Mitchell

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Fiction
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there’re times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind’s mind exerts its own will, too, and has...

—David Mitchell

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Mind
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I added ‘writers’ to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

—David Mitchell

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Writers
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

—David Mitchell

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Humans
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Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

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PoemsPoetry
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Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

—David Mitchell

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Truth
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Disco’s are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don’t.

—David Mitchell

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The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

—David Mitchell

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Soul
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The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

—David Mitchell

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FoodHumor
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What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?” I...

—David Mitchell

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ConsciousnessEqualityHatred
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(…)entre todas las razas del mundo, nuestra sed, o mejor dicho, nuestra avidez, de tesoros, de oro, de especias y de dominio, ¡oh, si!, sobre todo del dulce dominio, ¡es la más aguda, la más...

—David Mitchell

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Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

—David Mitchell

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CrushLongingLove
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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

—David Mitchell

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I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as ‘noble.

—David Mitchell

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The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

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Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

—David Mitchell

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But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block…

—David Mitchell

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Thought
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are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you’d stumble across on TV at night. You know you’ll regret it in the morning, but you keep watching anyway.

—David Mitchell

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FrenchLow-BudgetMovie
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…It’s as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn’t matter. I mean, I know we’re all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor...

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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.

—David Mitchell

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. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

—David Mitchell

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Dreams
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Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

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Fiction
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The learnin’ mind is the livin’ mind… an’ any sort o’ smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.

—David Mitchell

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LearnMind
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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

—David Mitchell

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Honesty
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This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.

—David Mitchell

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HellLove
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How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices. The Chinese didn’t want our clothes, tools, or salted herring, and who can...

—David Mitchell

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There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small,...

—David Mitchell

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PeopleTelevisionTruth
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