What did David Mitchell mean by: Women, O, women! They’ll find the baddest meanin’ in your words & hold it up. - David Mitchell Novelist · England Copy
+ The earth’s a door if you press your ear against it. Feraz Zeid, September 24, 2023December 26, 2023, David Mitchell, Doors, Ears, Earth, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Novel, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Lying’s wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Lying, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Eloquent, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Extinction, Selfish, Soul, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Book, Mother, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mitchell, Ancestry, Memories, 0 - David Mitchell Novelist · England
+ The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. Feraz Zeid, June 3, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mitchell, Longing, Provoking, 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
