David Mitchell
English novelist and screenwriter
Lived from: 1969 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 12 january 1969
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
Source: Number9Dream (2007) 365― David Mitchell -
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Source: Ghostwritten (2017) 122― David Mitchell -
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 357― David Mitchell -
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 80― David Mitchell -
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
Source: Ghostwritten (2017) 350― David Mitchell -
Hate eats the hater.
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 53― David Mitchell -
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
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It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 365― David Mitchell -
Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it.
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Men invented money. Women invented mutual aid.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 143― David Mitchell -
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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Speaking one language only is a prison.
Source: Black Swan Green (2008) 153― David Mitchell -
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 66― David Mitchell -
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
― David Mitchell
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