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 Copy Share Image
“An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living… — David Mitchell Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.” — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Bewildered Copy Share Image
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.” — David Mitchell Better things Copy Share Image
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend… — David Mitchell Boundaries Copy Share Image
“ if you go up there Old Georgie'll freeze you an' dig out your soul with a cruel'n'crookit spoony an' eat it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Soul Copy Share Image
“Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'? — David Mitchell Country Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it." "Then it's not… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics speaks in chance, with the syntax of uncertainty. You can know the position of an electron but you cannot know… — David Mitchell Physics Copy Share Image
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler… — David Mitchell Archivists Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d… — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell American culture Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Oaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.” — David Mitchell Flower Copy Share Image
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration. — David Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell England Copy Share Image
“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Ridicule Copy Share Image
“War's never a picnic. Although obviously soldiers do end up eating outdoors quite a lot.” — David Mitchell Peace Copy Share Image
“Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.” — David Mitchell Crush Copy Share Image
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. — David Mitchell Behemoth Copy Share Image
“The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.” — David Mitchell Betrayal Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“A Muzak version of “Imagine” comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.” — David Mitchell Imagination Copy Share Image
“You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters. That's not quite the same as wishing to be one” — David Mitchell Sister Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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