"This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece,……" — David Mitchell
"This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself."
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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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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information…
— Todd Akin
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who…
— Benjamin Carson
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.…
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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