David Mitchell Quotes

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• Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
• The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
• Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an…
• One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.
• Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
• The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
• An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
• Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
• Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
• One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
• If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
• The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
• When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel…
• If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.…
• For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!…
• I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what…
• If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
• The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

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