"What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing……" — David Mitchell
"What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds."
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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 Atlas Quotes
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He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas
— Drake
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato…
— Ray Bradbury
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift…
— Murray Rothbard
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to…
— Dervla Murphy
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to…
— Dervla Murphy
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
— Ken Jennings
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One…
— Raj Patel
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