Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Image
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — 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
