"History admits no rules; only outcomes." — David Mitchell
"History admits no rules; only outcomes."
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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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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 Admits Quotes
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size…
— Julie Burchill
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
— Robert Burton
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of…
— Aristotle
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he…
— Epicurus
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells…
— Bertrand Russell
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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing;…
— Thomas Paine
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ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need…
— Chapman Cohen
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it…
— Raymond Chandler
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