A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
David MitchellTorturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
David MitchellStrip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
David MitchellTags: truth
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
David MitchellTags: first-sentence
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
David MitchellTags: first-sentence
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
David MitchellTags: respect
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
David MitchellTrees're always a relief, after people.
David MitchellTags: humanity nature trees alienation forest
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
David MitchellTags: writing literary-criticism
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
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