Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. David Mitchell More Quotes by David Mitchell More Quotes From David Mitchell Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day. David Mitchell one-dayshows why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most David Mitchell despisebeautifulneeds How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? David Mitchell bodymindheart There are so many cities in every single city. David Mitchell cities If your words're true, they're armed. David Mitchell ifs Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat. David Mitchell seatsemergencies Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister? David Mitchell hateteacherjobs Do ants get headaches? David Mitchell headacheants If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable. David Mitchell adversitypurposemean Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. David Mitchell realmotherbook I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. David Mitchell stepstwofirsts A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty. David Mitchell mountain A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living. David Mitchell strikeswantworld What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be. David Mitchell kitchenlawwar She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. David Mitchell appreciatesourceenough Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. David Mitchell youngeasyfirsts Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power. David Mitchell maturityflowermean . . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. David Mitchell unpredictabledreamnight The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. David Mitchell through-my-eyesher-eyeseye …and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean. David Mitchell oceanskyblue
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