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David Mitchell quotes: Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it. Persuasion is not about force; it's about showing a person a door, and making him or her desperate to open it.
David Mitchell quotes: Nothing more costly than item that has no price. Nothing more costly than item that has no price.
David Mitchell quotes: I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
David Mitchell quotes: Sex may be the antidote to death but it offers life everlasting only to the species, not the individual. Sex may be the antidote to death but it offers life everlasting only to the species, not the individual.
David Mitchell quotes: ...books may speak, but they do not listen. ...books may speak, but they do not listen.
David Mitchell quotes: Dogs are much crueler than BAFTAs Dogs are much crueler than BAFTAs
David Mitchell quotes: Alain-Fournier is Alain-Fournier is
David Mitchell quotes: This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth. This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.
David Mitchell quotes: Humor is the ovum of dissent, Humor is the ovum of dissent,
David Mitchell quotes: We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
David Mitchell quotes: Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
David Mitchell quotes: You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
David Mitchell quotes: Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time. Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.
David Mitchell quotes: after a couple of months, a well-ordered life tastes like a flat, nonalcoholic lager. after a couple of months, a well-ordered life tastes like a flat, nonalcoholic lager.
David Mitchell quotes: Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs. Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.
David Mitchell quotes: If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished. If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.
David Mitchell quotes: Heresy is fissiparous, however. Heresy is fissiparous, however.
David Mitchell quotes: All boundaries are conventions. All boundaries are conventions.
David Mitchell quotes: This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves. This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.
David Mitchell quotes: A cow of awkward pause mooed. A cow of awkward pause mooed.
David Mitchell quotes: Faust tends not to have happy endings. Faust tends not to have happy endings.
David Mitchell quotes: How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign? How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign?
David Mitchell quotes: One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly. One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.
David Mitchell quotes: Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
David Mitchell quotes: My heart's a clubbed baby seal. My heart's a clubbed baby seal.
David Mitchell quotes: The wisdom of skin is underappreciated. The wisdom of skin is underappreciated.
David Mitchell quotes: Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized. Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.
David Mitchell quotes: Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
David Mitchell quotes: Embrace your enemy," the elders urged, "to prevent him striking you." ("Embrace your enemy," Henry quipped, "to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.") Embrace your enemy," the elders urged, "to prevent him striking you." ("Embrace your enemy," Henry quipped, "to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.")
David Mitchell quotes: What happens to all the seconds tipped into the bin of the past? What happens to all the seconds tipped into the bin of the past?
David Mitchell quotes: that's like Herod calling Thatcher a bit insensitive that's like Herod calling Thatcher a bit insensitive
David Mitchell quotes: Revolting' was the last word I ever spoke as someone who'd never kissed a girl. Revolting' was the last word I ever spoke as someone who'd never kissed a girl.
David Mitchell quotes: I could pop with all the fear, irritation, and love. I could pop with all the fear, irritation, and love.
David Mitchell quotes: You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.That's not quite the same as wishing to be one You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one
David Mitchell quotes: The thought of covering her in anything is Byronically diverting. The thought of covering her in anything is Byronically diverting.
David Mitchell quotes: She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too. She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.
David Mitchell quotes: In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows. In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
David Mitchell quotes: If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation. If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
David Mitchell quotes: So you're a sort of archivist for the future, So you're a sort of archivist for the future,
David Mitchell quotes: So how does it feel? is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex. So how does it feel? is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex.
David Mitchell quotes: You ask a starved man," Gerritszoon says, "to drink to a glutton. You ask a starved man," Gerritszoon says, "to drink to a glutton.
David Mitchell quotes: The First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child. The First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.
David Mitchell quotes: All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one. All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.
David Mitchell quotes: The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken. The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
David Mitchell quotes: His skin was blotched as a dying banana. His skin was blotched as a dying banana.
David Mitchell quotes: The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it. The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
David Mitchell quotes: Hell is hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon. Hell is hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon.
David Mitchell quotes: Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason. Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason.
David Mitchell quotes: Travel far enough, you meet yourself. Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
David Mitchell quotes: I can't blame them. I would have stared at me, too. I can't blame them. I would have stared at me, too.
David Mitchell quotes: Photos're better than nothing, but things're better than photos 'cause the things themselves were part of what was there. Photos're better than nothing, but things're better than photos 'cause the things themselves were part of what was there.
David Mitchell quotes: Ah, Klaas! Dear Klaas reverted to compost many years ago. Ah, Klaas! Dear Klaas reverted to compost many years ago.
David Mitchell quotes: Bagpipes and electric guitars usually end in tears Bagpipes and electric guitars usually end in tears
David Mitchell quotes: At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds. At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.
David Mitchell quotes: I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket. I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.
David Mitchell quotes: Once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back.
David Mitchell quotes: ever written. I went to bed with it and read ever written. I went to bed with it and read
David Mitchell quotes: I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"] I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"]
David Mitchell quotes: If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
David Mitchell quotes: Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell quotes: Yay, when it came to faces, pretty lies was better'n scabbin' true Yay, when it came to faces, pretty lies was better'n scabbin' true
David Mitchell quotes: This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables. This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables.
David Mitchell quotes: It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind. It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.
David Mitchell quotes: Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies. Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.
David Mitchell quotes: Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither. Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
David Mitchell quotes: The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
David Mitchell quotes: If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'. If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'.
David Mitchell quotes: All rising suns set. All rising suns set.
David Mitchell quotes: For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
David Mitchell quotes: How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
David Mitchell quotes: On my laptop, I have written "This Machine Kills Neocapitalism"! On my laptop, I have written "This Machine Kills Neocapitalism"!
David Mitchell quotes: No one else has lived this life. No one else has lived this life.
David Mitchell quotes: Aoife, in her dreams, makes a noise like a friendless harmonica. Aoife, in her dreams, makes a noise like a friendless harmonica.
David Mitchell quotes: Did you not detect the hairline cracks in the plot? Such Did you not detect the hairline cracks in the plot? Such
David Mitchell quotes: We had run out of infinity. We had run out of infinity.
David Mitchell quotes: I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
David Mitchell quotes: The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
David Mitchell quotes: Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
David Mitchell quotes: Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into. Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.
David Mitchell quotes: I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns. I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns.
David Mitchell quotes: All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
David Mitchell quotes: A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden. A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.
David Mitchell quotes: 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? 'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
David Mitchell quotes: The minutes jog up the down escalator. The minutes jog up the down escalator.
David Mitchell quotes: A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still. A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.
David Mitchell quotes: There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else! There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!
David Mitchell quotes: She murmurs, "You only value something if you know it'll end." N She murmurs, "You only value something if you know it'll end." N
David Mitchell quotes: Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Evil is in the eye of the beholder.
David Mitchell quotes: Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
David Mitchell quotes: Mum said I'd learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone's dream is the unforgivable one. Mum said I'd learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone's dream is the unforgivable one.
David Mitchell quotes: I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans. I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.
David Mitchell quotes: I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
David Mitchell quotes: These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all. These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
David Mitchell quotes: Every nowhere is somewhere[...] Every nowhere is somewhere[...]
David Mitchell quotes: The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple. The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple.
David Mitchell quotes: Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines. Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
David Mitchell quotes: And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades! And if you'd swap your metalife for a bone clock's snatched, wasted, tawdry handful of decades!
David Mitchell quotes: It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind. It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
David Mitchell quotes: But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block ... But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block ...
David Mitchell quotes: If not love, then what? If not love, then what?

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