David Mitchell Quotes

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• I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
• I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
• - This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are…
• Reality is the page. Life is the word.
• In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
• Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It…
• Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
• Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
• How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
• I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are…
• Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
• Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
• Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
• It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
• The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
• It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
• The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
• ...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
• Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding…
• So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

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