Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell Fiction Copy Share Image
“Yay, when it came to faces, pretty lies was better'n scabbin' true” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.” — David Mitchell Hate Copy Share Image
“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You can’t go changing what you’ve already set down, not without botching things up even more” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“...Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.” — David Mitchell Racism Copy Share Image
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.” — David Mitchell Relationships Copy Share Image
“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony… — David Mitchell Mother Copy Share Image
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the… — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel… — David Mitchell Coffee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over,… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger… — David Mitchell Heart Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Absence Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless… — David Mitchell Bullying Copy Share Image
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates… — David Mitchell Great man Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Modern man Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Blossom Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!… — David Mitchell Balloons Copy Share Image
![“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe…” quote by David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/david-mitchell-264_great-man_i-put-it-to-the-great-man-hitchcock-the_2177328.jpg)
