David Mitchell Short Quotes

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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

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Now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

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

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How lazily "xperts" [sic] dismiss what they fail to understand.

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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

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War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

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I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

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I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

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Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

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An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

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Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

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The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

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

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Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

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

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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

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This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

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That love loves fidelity [is] a myth woven by men from their insecurities.

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

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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

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Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

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Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

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What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

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