Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A time is one’s own, Eva, when oneself and one’s peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“No wonder it's all such a fucking mess. I divided up my possible futures, put them into separate accounts, and now they're… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed… — david mitchell Copy Share
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A merry activity?'… — David Mitchell Copy Share
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