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First Quotes by David Mitchell
- Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
- If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
- When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel…
- Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,…
- 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…
- Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
- I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
- 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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