David Mitchell Quotes

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• This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on…
• maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it
• The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
• Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret.…
• The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
• You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective…
• Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.
• Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is…
• If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
• Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
• Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
• The weak are meat the strong do eat.
• I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is…
• Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
• Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just…
• Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
• Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
• If your words're true, they're armed.
• There are so many cities in every single city.

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