"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for……" — David Mitchell
"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."
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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 Extinction Quotes
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should…
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested…
— Abraham Lincoln
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