"War's an auction where whoever can pay the……" — David Mitchell
"War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins."
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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 Auction Quotes
This quote is filed under Auction Quotes,
one of 51 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the…
— Edmund Burke
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and…
— James Lee Burke
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not…
— Maya Angelou
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no…
— H. L. Mencken
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted…
— Peter R. Orszag
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The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more…
— Brian Miller
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This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?
— Jennifer Lawrence
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
— Ann Richards
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The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people…
— Bob Horner
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