People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. David Mitchell More Quotes by David Mitchell More Quotes From David Mitchell Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. David Mitchell may lying world I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. David Mitchell biblical miracle civilization I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too. David Mitchell broken people years To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes. David Mitchell six differences mistake 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 chaos editors theory Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. David Mitchell nice watches needs Nothing is as eloquent as nothing. David Mitchell eloquent I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor. David Mitchell journey hero book The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. David Mitchell vacancy mind people As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent. David Mitchell glimpse men moving The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice. David Mitchell voice mind past So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . David Mitchell strive belief littles People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. David Mitchell ems caves people But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. David Mitchell heard book War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery. David Mitchell soldier war country Men invented money Women invented mutual aid David Mitchell mutual-aid aids men Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous. David Mitchell pits hurt cheating Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach. David Mitchell soulless roaches maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it David Mitchell meaning-of-life lying Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'? David Mitchell mass-destruction nuclear country
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