David Mitchell - People Quotes

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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

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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.

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Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

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People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.

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I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

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Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

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Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

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