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Famous David Mitchell Quotes
“A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.”
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
“How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!”
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”
“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
“Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.”
“It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.”
“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”
“It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”
“The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.”
“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”
“A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.”
“Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.”
“Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.”
“clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.”
“The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.”
“Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?”
“The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.”
“Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.”
“Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction”
“True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance”
“I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.”
“Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.”
“Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.”
“What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.”
“She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.”
“Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.”