I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.” — David Mitchell Academy award Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick. -Robert Frobisher” — David Mitchell Lemmings Copy Share Image
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
“..one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.” — David Mitchell Environment Copy Share Image
“You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.” — David Mitchell Respect Copy Share Image
“Her oil-black hair’s sort of punky. She must use gel. I’d love to gel her gel in for her.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — 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
“The police have also been under hostile scrutiny because of their handling of the student protests over fees. I sympathise: they’re in… — David Mitchell Police Copy Share Image
“You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms.… — David Mitchell First sight Copy Share Image
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Adaptation Copy Share Image
“Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Mirrors Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Faith 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 Age Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Calm mind Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“Preacher, of all the world's races, our love- or rather our rapacity-for treasure, gold, spices, and dominion, oh, most of all, sweet… — David Mitchell Dominion Copy Share Image
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.” — David Mitchell Forest Copy Share Image
“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.” — David Mitchell Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Clock 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 Another world Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.” — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Summer has taken a sensuous turn: Ayrs’s wife and I are lovers. Don’t alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense.” — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't… — David Mitchell Bookshops Copy Share Image
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