"Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive……" — David Mitchell
"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."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into…
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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…
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More Bemoan Quotes
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
— Chuck Knox
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack…
— Wendell Berry
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Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens
— Max Lucado
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater…
— Jonathan Swift
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I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to…
— Rufus Wainwright
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But…
— Sylvester Stallone
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When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow…
— Glenn Beck
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