David Mitchell Quotes

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• How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
• Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
• Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.
• Music’s a wood you walk through.
• ... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until…
• Do ants get headaches?
• If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness…
• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and…
• …and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue…
• The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
• . . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I…
• I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
• Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
• Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
• She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a…
• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the…
• A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth…
• ...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

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