How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.
Quoted by David Mitchell
Good moods're as fragile as eggs...Bad moods're as fragile as bricks.
Quoted by David Mitchell
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.
Quoted by David Mitchell
You only value something if you know it'll end.
Quoted by David Mitchell
A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.
Quoted by David Mitchell
All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.
Quoted by David Mitchell
Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.
Quoted by David Mitchell
The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.
Quoted by David Mitchell
I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.
Quoted by David Mitchell
A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.
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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
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To implant belief . . . is to dominate the believers.
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All defectors have a complex relationship with truth.
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The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.
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It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.
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...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
Quoted by David Mitchell
At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.
Quoted by David Mitchell