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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a38ea95 | So, I asked 'gain, is it better to be savage'n to be Civ'lized? List'n, savages an' Civ'lizeds ain't divvied by tribes or b'liefs or mountain ranges, nay, ev'ry human is both, yay. Old Uns'd got the Smart o' gods but the savagery o'jackals an' that's what tripped the Fall. Some savages what I knowed got a beautsome Civ'lized heart beatin' in their ribs. Maybe some Kona. Not 'nuff to say so their hole tribe, but who knows one day. One day. ".. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4fe8f28 | A clock with no hands. "Freedom!" is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. A" -- | David Mitchell | ||
| 5a522e8 | But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat. | humanity life | David Mitchell | |
| c085e7c | I emerge into a library-study with the highest book-population density I have seen in my life. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book side-streets. Book spillages, book rubble. Paperback books, hardcover books, atlases, manuals, almanacs. Nine lifetimes of books. Enough books to build an igloo to hide in, and then to hide the igloo. The room is sentient with books. Mirrors double and cube the books. A Great Wall of China quantity of bo.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9f403d8 | Us elderly are the modern lepers. | David Mitchell | ||
| 43e284b | Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. 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 pr.. | David Mitchell | ||
| e97c9ca | European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences. | David Mitchell | ||
| b1ce5e5 | Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen? | David Mitchell | ||
| 6117ac1 | To quote an early mentor," I tell the kid, " 'A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability." | David Mitchell | ||
| c1417ab | So how does it feel?" is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex." | David Mitchell | ||
| 188738b | We-- by whom I mean anyone over sixty-- commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3b2f509 | perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. Ascension creates a hunger sharp enough to consume the subject's sanity, | David Mitchell | ||
| ac9744c | Crispin Hershey!" Lady Suze holds up both hands as if I'm the sun god Ra. "Your event was totes amazeballs! As they say." | David Mitchell | ||
| c3e70f9 | In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex. | David Mitchell | ||
| e743ccf | Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures. Express gratitude, especially for work that tends to get taken for granted. Identify problems as they arise, remembering that anger is flammable. When we've behaved like a donkey, remember that a sincere apolog.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 98972ab | In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine-gunned in the very same week at the battle of Neuve-Chapelle. All three. Imagine that: On Monday, you've got three sons, by Friday you've got none. Lady Albertina had just, y'know, caved in. Physically, mentally, spiritually, brutally. | grief-and-loss horror lords-and-ladies neuve-chapelle slade-house | David Mitchell | |
| 3776669 | The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's me.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5189fa8 | The rectum of Wybo Gerritszoon releases a hot fart of horror. | David Mitchell | ||
| f92e71f | I loved Vinny like he was a part of me, and he loved me like a stick of gum. He'd spat me out when the flavor went, unwrapped another, and stuffed it in. | David Mitchell | ||
| 23423e5 | with zero fillings, revealed by the so-so joke--"Have you heard the news about Schrodinger's Cat? It died today; wait--it didn't, did, didn't, did ..."; high-volume discourse on who's the best Bond; on Gilmour and Waters and Syd; on hyperreality; dollar-pound parity; Sartre, Bart Simpson, Barthes's myths; "Make mine a double"; George Michael's stubble; "Like, music expired with the Smiths"; urbane and entitled, for the most part, my peers; .. | David Mitchell | ||
| b767d72 | Despair is as attractive as cold sores. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6a684e5 | All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one. | David Mitchell | ||
| 14464c5 | When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end. | David Mitchell | ||
| d636200 | He sees, and smells, that the mishap was caused by a large human turd. | David Mitchell | ||
| b777d7a | Our truth is terrorsome cold. | David Mitchell | ||
| 09af89e | only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" | David Mitchell | ||
| f05202d | And don't knock nepotism, Cheeseman; my well-connected uncles all agree, nepotism made this country what it is today. | David Mitchell | ||
| a5c2860 | The best way to work with dementia is to act as if the person you knew is still inside the wreckage. If you're wrong, and the person you know is gone, then no damage is done but the standards of care stay high; if you're right, and the person you knew is still bricked up inside, then you are the lifeline. | David Mitchell | ||
| d9adf60 | No organist played a Magnificat but the wind in the flue chimney, no choir sang a Nunc Dimittis but the wuthering gulls, yet I fancy the Creator was not displeazed. | David Mitchell | ||
| f15a9d0 | How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign? | David Mitchell | ||
| 592182f | The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog's head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocket watch by a margin of hours. Indeed, one valued import from New Zealand is the accurate time). | David Mitchell | ||
| 7f42533 | My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful." | David Mitchell | ||
| 932b7da | Es como vomitar un huevo a la escocesa podrido: siempre crees que has terminado y siempre hay mas. | david-mitchell spanish translate | David Mitchell | |
| 7f9b613 | An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody's turned up to. | David Mitchell | ||
| 30a0e6f | Guys are all sperm-guns. | sperm-guns | David Mitchell | |
| 5c317ee | A twig snaps. I am intensely alive. | David Mitchell | ||
| 86a26da | Six feet directly beneath his seat is a suitcase in the baggage hold containing enough C-4 to turn an airplane into a meteor. | David Mitchell | ||
| 90cfd09 | What credit theorists like Mitchell-Innes were arguing is that even if Henry gave Joshua a gold coin instead of a piece of paper, the situation would be essentially the same. A gold coin is a promise to pay something else of equivalent value to a gold coin. After all, a gold coin is not actually useful in itself. One only accepts it because one assumes other people will. In this sense, the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of t.. | David Graeber | ||
| 5b378c0 | What women want is still what it's always been: either you or, more likely, not you. | preferences truth-of-life women | David Mitchell | |
| bb89d88 | I lied, yes, but that doesn't make me a liar. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, small wrong may be a big right. | David Mitchell | ||
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| cf4c858 | My curiosity is dying, I told Professor Mephi one pleasant day, during a seminar on Thomas Paine. I remember the sounds of a baseball game drifting thru his open window. My mentor said we had to identify the source of this malady, and urgently. I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without xperience being food without sustenance. "You need to get out more," remarked the professor." | David Mitchell | ||
| 25397ef | bagpipes and electric guitars usually end in tears | David Mitchell | ||
| 0556db0 | Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud and so is a soul. | David Mitchell |