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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

Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. — 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 money
Like 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

Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers. — David Mitchell

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. — 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

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one. — David Mitchell

No one else has lived this life. — David Mitchell

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — 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

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. — 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

Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen? — 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

A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste. — David Mitchell

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. — David Mitchell

Hesitations're yeses or nos if the questioner already knows the answer. — David Mitchell

Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance. — 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

For one voyage to begin, another voyage must come to an end, sort of. — 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

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell

What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing? — David Mitchell

An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody's turned up to. — 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

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in. — 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 listen
lo, 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

She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too. — 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

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. — David Mitchell