"The spirit was willing but the flesh was…" — David Mitchell
"The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak."
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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 Flesh Quotes
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
— Antonio Banderas
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
— Geoffrey Beene
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
— Samuel Butler
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the…
— A. S. Byatt
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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