David Mitchell (author) Quotes
- History admits no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief. - View Quote Details on History admits no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious…
- Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? 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… 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. - View Quote Details on Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly…
- One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself… In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. - View Quote Details on One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself……
- The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken. - View Quote Details on The most malicious god is the god of the counted…
- Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime. - View Quote Details on Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed…
- Diplomacy… mops up war’s spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents. - View Quote Details on Diplomacy… mops up war’s spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the…
- Ghostwritten ’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, “Why do things happen?” so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams ’s secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, “In what space does the mind operate?” - View Quote Details on Ghostwritten ’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different…
- The body is the outermost layer of the mind. - View Quote Details on The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
- Lunatics are writers whose works write them. - View Quote Details on Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
- Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles ord’nary, but it din’t master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o’ humans, yay, a hunger for more. - View Quote Details on Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles…
- Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. - View Quote Details on Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
- Books don’t offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. - View Quote Details on Books don’t offer real escape but they can stop a…
- I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & 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? - View Quote Details on I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would…
- Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. - View Quote Details on Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology…
About David Mitchell (author)
David Mitchell (born 1969-01-12 ) is an award-winning British writer of postmodernist novels. He has lived for many years in Japan, and has set much of his fiction in the Far East. .
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