David Mitchell Quotes

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
• All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
• Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
• What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
• She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
• Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
• Time is the speed at which the past decays.
• I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And…
• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other.…
• But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
• You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be…
• Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable…
• Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and…
• ...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
• Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
• My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
• Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary…
• Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
• Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on…

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