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David Mitchell Inspirational Quotes (163)

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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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I like too many different kinds of movies to only want to do one kind.
David Robert Mitchell
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I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
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Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
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over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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