“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We cut a pack of cards called historical context- our generation, Sixsmith, cut tens, jacks and queens. Adrian's cut threes, fours, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“All rising suns set, Archivist. [...] All revolutions are [fantacy, lunacy], until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [...] I was… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — 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 Image
“... 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — 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
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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