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Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.
— David Mitchell
There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
— David Mitchell
A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind.
— David Mitchell
My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.
— David Robert Mitchell
Dogs are much crueler than BAFTAs
— David Mitchell
Alain-Fournier is
— David Mitchell
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
— David Mitchell
This is how to control entire populations - don't suppress news, but make it so dumb and dull that nobody has any interest in it.
— David Mitchell
Humor is the ovum of dissent,
— David Mitchell
charged the dikes at Domburg, and spindrift
— David Mitchell
A city is a sea that you lose things in. You only find things that other people have lost.
— David Mitchell
Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honey
Stick fast. — David Mitchell
I heard a miaow nearby and looked down to see a moon-grey cat melting out of the shadows.
— David Mitchell
Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
— David Mitchell
But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person.
— David Mitchell
Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun'll be worth any number of university degrees.
— David Mitchell
Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.
— David Mitchell
Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks
— David Mitchell
Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues
— David Mitchell
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
— David Mitchell
This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.
— David Mitchell
I think we think in terms of stories.
— David Mitchell
No one else has lived this life.
— David Mitchell
Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn't, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would.
— David Mitchell
The belly craves food, she thinks,The tongue craves water,
The heart craves love, and
The mind craves stories. — David Mitchell
Here's the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.
— David Mitchell
To have relied on a man to stay alive is a bond closer than blood.
— David Mitchell
envied their certainty about the future.
— David Mitchell
tomorrows feel like a limitless resource.
— David Mitchell
Civilisation's like the economy or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it's real, it dies.
— David Mitchell
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
— David Mitchell
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
— David Mitchell
Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.
— David Mitchell
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
— David Mitchell
Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity ... it'd be now, no question.
— David Mitchell
This morn I awoke to the laments of fallen angels.
— David Mitchell
On my laptop, I have written "This Machine Kills Neocapitalism"!
— David Mitchell
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
— David Mitchell
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
— David Mitchell
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
— David Mitchell
What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing?
— David Mitchell
I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy.
— David Mitchell
Esther runs Unalaq's ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years ...
— David Mitchell
Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.
— David Mitchell
I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself.
— David Mitchell
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
— David Mitchell
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
Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavourless.
— David Mitchell
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
— David Mitchell
What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?
— David Mitchell
So we surrender to stupidity, do we? Freedom of speech is sacrificed at the altar of manufactured rage.
— David Mitchell
Just say, "It happened, but it's over," and get on with the ordinary stuff of family and life.
— David Mitchell
That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.
— David Mitchell
The dust was deep and crisp and even.
— David Mitchell
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
— David Mitchell
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
— David Mitchell
If one will just be still, shut up, and listenlo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in a grimy London railway station. — David Mitchell
Wrong turns teach us the right way.
— David Mitchell
It takes more than holding hands and singing 'Ebony and Ivory'.
— David Mitchell
Might be dead and buried. V. well, there is more to E.'s & my pax
— David Mitchell
The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I.
— David Mitchell
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
— David Mitchell
There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
— David Mitchell
I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly.I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts. — David Mitchell
Aoife, in her dreams, makes a noise like a friendless harmonica.
— David Mitchell
Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.
— David Mitchell
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
— 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.
— David Mitchell
Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.
— David Mitchell
Does the Japanese race, wonders Jacob, derive gratification from self-inflicted misery?
— David Mitchell
When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost
— David Mitchell
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
— David Mitchell
He chiseled open the fault lines in the others' personalities.
— David Mitchell
Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
— David Mitchell
A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles.
— David Mitchell
Did you not detect the hairline cracks in the plot? Such
— David Mitchell
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
— David Mitchell
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
— David Mitchell
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
— David Mitchell
We had run out of infinity.
— David Mitchell
The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
— David Mitchell
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
— David Mitchell
Us elderly are the modern lepers.
— David Mitchell
