"My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of……" — David Mitchell
"My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other."
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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 Absolutist Quotes
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one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything…
— James Meredith
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The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by…
— Kirk J. Schneider
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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist…
— Carl Sagan
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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist…
— Thomas Mann
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