“There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything… — David Mitchell Suspicious Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Adam Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Nobody knows 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 Belief Copy Share Image
“But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.” — David Mitchell Psychology Copy Share Image
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. — David Mitchell Ancient Copy Share Image
“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.” — David Mitchell Communication Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
“I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.” — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.” — David Mitchell Fish Copy Share Image
“Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym” — David Mitchell Flea Copy Share Image
“So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.” — David Mitchell Failure Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.” — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Bewildered Copy Share Image
“Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.” — David Mitchell Love 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 Cards Copy Share Image
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.” — David Mitchell Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. — David Mitchell Autumn Copy Share Image
“One should be wary of touching one’s idols, for the gilt comes off on one’s fingertips.” — David Mitchell Wary Copy Share Image
“One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.” — David Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to… — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it." "Then it's not… — David Mitchell Couldn Change Copy Share Image
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Asian Copy Share Image
“In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli.… — David Mitchell Kings Copy Share Image
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will… — David Mitchell Giving Copy Share Image
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