"Torturous advances won over generations can be lost……" — David Mitchell
"Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword."
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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 Advances Quotes
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse…
— Julie Burchill
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift…
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
— Deepak Chopra
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Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
— Walter Scott
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
— Wernher von Braun
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country…
— Sun Tzu
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As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do…
— Watchman Nee
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