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Famous David Mitchell Quotes
“But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.”
“War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.”
“The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.”
“I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.”
“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”
“This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.”
“maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”
“Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.”
“Men invented money Women invented mutual aid”
“The weak are meat the strong do eat.”
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”
“There are so many cities in every single city.”
“How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?”
“Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.”