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David Mitchell has 209 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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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!…
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving…
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie…
— Unknown Author
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The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time…
— Terry Pratchett
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Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I…
— Matt Skiba
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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
— David Mitchell
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…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which…
— Lawrence Durrell
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation…
— Leroy Hood
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
— Olin Miller
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Brandon McCaw did a 500 page essay based on the real founders of Rome were a tribe called the Latins, descendents of…
— Brandon McCaw
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