David Mitchell Quotes

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• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
• When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
• Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
• 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
• As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge,…
• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
• Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
• People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome…
• Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
• We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
• Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
• Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
• If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
• Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
• Trees're always a relief, after people.
• Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
• Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
• over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
• These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

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