Foolproof depends on the size of the fool
David MitchellPrejudice is permafrost
David MitchellIt was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where you'd never expect to find them. Even as an old woman, an amputee in a wheelchair, Ella sang like a girl who could still be at high school, falling in love for the first time".
David MitchellOh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it 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.
David MitchellWars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.
David MitchellTags: war warning restaurant foodie
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
David MitchellThis is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.
David MitchellTags: dream
Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one - or a hired one, it matters not - to take you home.
David MitchellWell, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax?
I play Go against my sony, I said.
"To relax?" he responded, incredulous. "Who wins, you or the sony?"
The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve?
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
I said, If losers can xploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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