"Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how……" — David Mitchell
"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 is dethroned by public acts."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
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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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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed…
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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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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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More Acts Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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