What did David Mitchell mean by: One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. - David Mitchell Novelist · England Copy
+ The healthy can’t understand the emptied, the broken. Feraz Zeid, June 18, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Broken, Healthy, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Novelists, Strong, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Book, Reading, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Women, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Trees’re always a relief, after people. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Relief, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Fiction, Plausible, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Entertainment, Stories, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France