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title: "4 Escape Quotes By David Mitchell"
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> [Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/books-don-t-offer-real-escape-but-they-can-stop-a-mind-scratching/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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> [Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/mother-used-to-say-escape-is-never-further-than-the-nearest-book-well/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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> [“escape is never further than the nearest book”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/escape-is-never-further-than-the-nearest-book/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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> [Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/mother-used-to-say-escape-is-never-further-than-the-nearest-book/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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## Other authors on Escape

- [Craig D. Lounsbrough 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/craig-d-lounsbrough/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/rumi/)
- [Heather Demetrios 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/heather-demetrios/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-bukowski-22166.jpg) Charles Bukowski 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/charles-bukowski/)
- [T. S. Eliot 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/t-s-eliot/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-salman-rushdie-82434.jpg) Salman Rushdie 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/salman-rushdie/)
- [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-haruki-murakami-40784.jpg) Haruki Murakami 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/escape/haruki-murakami/)

## More by David Mitchell

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/in-the-next-room-a-freckly-girl-julia-s-age-sat-in-a-wheelchair-one/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/i-envied-my-uncritical-unthinking-sisters/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/ethical-cyberexplorers-are-responsible-yeah-we-are-friendly-ghosts-in/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/i-succumbed-late-fifteenth-century-verb-old-french-succomber-or-latin/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [Your environment affects you wherever you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/your-environment-affects-you-wherever-you-are/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/the-second-tunnel-s-a-ministry-of-defence-tunnel-dug-for-a-nuclear/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/loyalty-looks-simple-but-it-ain-t/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/only-the-trombonist-played-on-that-s-trombonists-for-you/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/war-s-an-auction-where-whoever-can-pay-the-most-in-damage-and-still/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/the-human-world-is-made-of-stories-not-people-the-people-the-stories/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/so-little-is-actually-worthy-of-belief-or-disbelief-better-to-strive/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/i-elbowed-my-way-into-the-grubby-caf-bought-a-pie-that-tasted-of-shoe/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/a-classical-lp-was-playing-jealous-and-sweet-this-music-was-sobbing/)

[david mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/how-lazily-xperts-dismiss-what-they-fail-to-understand/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

> [“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A merry activity?'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/writing-poetry-s-i-looked-around-the-solarium-but-madame-crommelynck/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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