“What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten.” — David Mitchell Breeches Copy Share Image
“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?” — David Mitchell Human heart 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 Human beings Copy Share Image
“the First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Adept Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Auction Copy Share Image
Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an… — David Mitchell Consumers Copy Share Image
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. — David Mitchell Division Copy Share Image
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it… — David Mitchell Downside Copy Share Image
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us… — David Mitchell Back together 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 History Copy Share Image
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a… — David Mitchell Believe Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Badges Copy Share Image
Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others… — David Mitchell Ability Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, ‘Ah…they die because gods decide so.’… — David Mitchell Bad karma Copy Share Image
“Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiancé in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo… — David Mitchell Bruised Copy Share Image
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were… — David Mitchell Bitten Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Adulthood Copy Share Image
“You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What… — David Mitchell Ethics Copy Share Image
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“La risata è anarchia e blasfema. I tiranni fanno bene a temerla.” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime — David Mitchell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.” — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
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