The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart… — David Mitchell Learning Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, ‘The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ ” During” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The Icon'ry, Aunt Bees said, held Valleysmen's past an' present all t'gether” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. — David Mitchell Physics Copy Share Image
“A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.” — David Mitchell An-orison-of-somni-451 Copy Share Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Abyss Copy Share Image
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality — David Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
“Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands… — David Mitchell Marriage 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 Humor Copy Share Image
“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” — David Mitchell Future Copy Share Image
The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind… — David Mitchell Might Copy Share Image
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write… — David Mitchell Every day Copy Share Image
“One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them… — David Mitchell Stem cell Copy Share Image
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
“I'm shoutin' back more'n forty long years at myself, yay,...Oy, list'n! Times are you're weak 'gainst the world! Times are you can't… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Abolition Copy Share Image
“Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage."… — David Mitchell Business Copy Share Image
“One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those Regency residences number amount London's Costliest properties, but should you ever inherit one, dear Reader, sell it, don't live in it. Houses like these secrete some dark sorcery that transforms their… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty.… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay, babbybies o' blissweed cradled me that night, then the drummin' started up, see ev'ry tribe had its own drums. Foday o' Lotus Pond Dwellin' an' two-three Valleysmen played goatskin'n'pingwood tom-toms, an' Hilo beardies thumped their flumfy-flumfy drums an'… — David Mitchell Copy Share
