“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell 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 Copy Share Image
“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land &… — 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
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 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
