As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell More Quotes by David Mitchell More Quotes From David Mitchell Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! David Mitchell hell sin soul Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator. David Mitchell grief love men I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell welcome philosophical ideas A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. David Mitchell women use inspirational Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents. David Mitchell strong war mean Reality is the page. Life is the word. David Mitchell pages life-is reality Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. David Mitchell humanity war mean I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them. David Mitchell selfish bed lying I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. David Mitchell maps answers book Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime David Mitchell end-of-the-world humanity world Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. David Mitchell persons thinking Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime. David Mitchell each-month hoarding law Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. David Mitchell mirages credibility salvation Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. David Mitchell quality technology soldier The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. David Mitchell past It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself. David Mitchell small-world world Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. David Mitchell dies winning stuff Lunatics are writers whose works write them. David Mitchell writing Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. David Mitchell mirrors asking trying As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. David Mitchell originality long way
