David Mitchell Quotes

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• Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
• If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
• One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.
• By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
• A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
• Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
• Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
• clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
• Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.
• The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
• Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
• The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
• Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
• Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
• Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
• It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.
• True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
• I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
• Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if…

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