David Mitchell Quotes

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• ...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
• History admits no rules; only outcomes.
• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
• What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
• Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
• Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
• What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
• Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
• Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk…
• We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
• The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
• Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an'…
• Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,…
• Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
• I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.
• Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill,…
• The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
• Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed…

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